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 Creative Commons Evangelism, Libraries on Oct 16th, 2008
I am thrilled to report that the University of Michigan Library has adopted Creative Commons licenses for Library-produced content.
From the press release:
The University of Michigan Library is adopting Creative Commons Attribution-Non-Commercial licenses for all works created by the Library for which the Regents of the University of Michigan hold the copyrights. These works include [...]
Posted in Copyright, Libraries, Public domain on Sep 11th, 2008
This is local news for me, but exciting and important on a national level (at least I like to think so).
The University of Michigan Library was just awarded a grant for over half a million dollars from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, to develop a copyright review management system which will improve the [...]
OCLC has launched the WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry.
From the press release:
The WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry is a community working together to build a union catalog of copyright evidence based on WorldCat, which contains more than 100 million bibliographic records describing items held in thousands of libraries worldwide. In addition to the WorldCat metadata, the [...]
Posted in Libraries, Technology and Web 2.0 on Jun 27th, 2008
A grad school classmate of mine, Dianne Dietrich, has created an excellent set of tutorials for librarians who want to learn how to use command line. Here’s why:
If you’re a librarian, and you’re working with lots of information — and I mean, lots, like information overload lots — you need to be equipped with a [...]
Posted in Collected Stories, Creative Commons Evangelism, Libraries, Publishing on Jun 13th, 2008
I just got back from a week of vacation, followed by a week of post-vacation crunch, so here’s a small assortment of things I would have blogged about sooner, but didn’t.
Paul Krugman says it better In a column titled Bits, Bands, and Books: Paying for Creativity in a Digital World, Paul Krugman describes the impact [...]
Posted in Libraries on Mar 21st, 2008
I spent yesterday afternoon at the Ann Arbor District Library, attending Library Camp. I joined the group discussing how to sell Web 2.0 to our colleagues, administrators, and patrons. Overall, I was pretty proud of how the group managed not to devolve into a whine fest about how hard it is to get libraries [...]
