Multi-Purpose Librarian
Posted in Musings on Jul 14th, 2009
I’ve been terribly slow in updating here recently (Blogs are dead! Long live Twitter!), but I wanted to announce that I started a new job at the University of Michigan Library in May, and am no longer the Library’s copyright specialist. My new title is Special Assistant to the Dean of Libraries. It’s a fancy [...]
Posted in Musings on Dec 12th, 2008
A few weeks ago, I gave a guest lecture in a class on intellectual property and information law (SI 519) at Michigan’s School of Information, a class in which I was a student just a few years ago. The Google Book Search settlement had just been announced, so my original plans for talking about the [...]
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 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 Copyright, Creative Commons Evangelism, Musings on Apr 28th, 2008
Paul Courant recently posted on his blog about changing his Creative Commons license from Attribution-NonCommercial (BY-NC) to Attribution (BY). It has me thinking about the significance of the different licenses, and it also has me wondering whether I should change mine. What follows is my meandering thought process.
For reference, here’s a page that describes all [...]
