Multi-Purpose Librarian
Posted in Copyright, Technology and Web 2.0 on May 23rd, 2008
Web 2.0 is one of my biggest professional interests after scholarly communication and its attendant issues. Even though my titles don’t have “digital” or “technology” or “emerging” in them, I see Web 2.0 as being very tightly linked to the copyright and scholarly publishing issues of the moment. Over time, I hope to use this [...]
Posted in Copyright, Orphan Works on May 21st, 2008
Someday I will stop blogging about orphan works, but today is not that day. Today, our man Lawrence Lessig, creator of Creative Commons and cyberlaw expert extraordinaire, has an op-ed in the New York Times about orphan works, and I’m helpless before the impulse to link it: Little Orphan Artworks.
Lessig comes down strongly against the [...]
Posted in Orphan Works on May 20th, 2008
Public Knowledge has assembled a great set of resources about orphan works, including an overview, a timeline, and (my personal favorite) a list of myths and facts about orphan works legislation. They’re all worth a look.
Public Knowledge has been very involved in developing the orphan works bills and pushing them through Congress, so its perspective [...]
Posted in Musings on May 14th, 2008
Slideshare is one of those specialized Web 2.0 creations that I hear a lot about but have never really found a use for. Like Twitter, only more time intensive and with pictures. Since I teach a lot of workshops and periodically get requests to share my slides, it seems like the kind of thing I [...]
Posted in Public domain, Publishing on May 6th, 2008
My library’s IT department bought a Kindle for staff to experiment with, and I checked it out for the week. Using it has been an interesting experience.
When it first came out I read a lot of commentating and criticism about the Kindle as a publishing model, but I hadn’t really paid much attention to the [...]
