So what does this mean for this blog? I hope to get back to it and post a bit more regularly. I still plan to focus on copyright and scholarly publishing because those topics remain important and interesting to me, but I may also write about other issues in academic libraries as my new role develops and I start branching out into other areas. Outside of the U-M Library my work in the area of scholarly communications continues: I’m still a member of ALA’s Copyright Advisory Network, and this summer I’m also an instructor for ACRL’s Scholarly Communications 101 Roadshow. Occasionally people who find me through this blog send me questions or invite me to speak about Creative Commons or copyright instruction, and I still welcome those questions and invitations and will do my best to answer them promptly and accept as often as I can.

Thank you to everyone who has been reading this over the last year and a half for your insightful comments and questions. I hope this new era in my professional life provides fodder for more interesting discussions here and elsewhere.

I mulled over most of the reasons for doing so several months ago, but the final push came when my colleague Ivan Chew changed the license on his blog partly as a result of our conversations about Creative Commons. I realized I’d reached a point where I was convincing other people to give everything away, but I wasn’t practicing what I preached.

So here it goes. I’m still sticking with Attribution-Noncommercial for my photographs, but for what I’m trying to do with this blog, maximising potential uses seems like the right thing to do.