Multi-Purpose Librarian
Posted in Libraries, Publishing on Nov 24th, 2008
I’m coming late to the OCLC WorldCat records policy conversation, but that gives me the advantage of having digested some of the discussion that’s already happened. There’s a little bibliography at the end of this post that points to many of the comments I read and considered.
Peter Suber Gavin Baker summarized the issue nicely:
There’s been [...]
Posted in Conferences, HOWTO, Libraries, Musings on Nov 13th, 2008
Phil Michel and Michelle Springer from the Library of Congress presented on the LOC’s Flickr Pilot Project. The Library of Congress was the first cultural heritage institution to partner with Flickr to share photographic content and invite user participation and comments. With 15 institutions participating in what is now the Flickr Commons, it is an [...]
Posted in Collected Stories on Nov 7th, 2008
This has been a big week for the country, a big week for the University of Michigan Library, and a big week for me. I got published. Twice! Here are the articles:
The beauty of “Some Rights Reserved”: Introducing Creative Commons to librarians, faculty, and students. College and Research Library News. November 2008, Vol. 69, No. [...]
