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Ivan Beeckmans

The disappearing virtual library - Opinion - Al Jazeera English - 0 views

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shared by Ivan Beeckmans on 05 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • But both are missing the point: the global demand for learning and scholarship is not being met by the contemporary publishing industry. It cannot be, not with the current business models and the prices. The users of library.nu - these barbarians at the gate of the publishing industry and the university - are legion.
  • They are a global market engaged in what we in the elite institutions of the world are otherwise telling them to do all the time: educate yourself; become scholars and thinkers; read and think for yourselves; bring civilisation, development and modernity to your people.
  • Library.nu was making that learning possible where publishers have not
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  • But the legality of library.nu is also not the issue: trading in scanned, leaked or even properly purchased versions of digital books is thoroughly illegal. This is so much the case that it can't be long before reading a book - making an unauthorised copy in your brain - is also made illegal. 
  • not stealing
  • The winter of 2012 has seen a series of assaults on file-sharing sites in the wake of the failed SOPA and PIPA legislation. Mega-upload.com (the brainchild of eccentric master pirate Kim Dotcom - he legally changed his name in 2005) was seized by the US Department of Justice; torrent site btjunkie.com voluntarily closed down for fear of litigation.
  • Jeff Utecht on 05 Mar 12
     
     Last week a website called "library.nu" disappeared. A coalition of international scholarly publishers accused the site of piracy and convinced a judge in Munich to shut it down. Library.nu (formerly Gigapedia) had offered, if the reports are to be believed, between 400,000 and a million digital books for free. 
Katy Vance

PLN Starter Kit - LiveBinder - 0 views

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shared by Katy Vance on 12 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Katy Vance on 12 Feb 13
     
    This PLN Starter Kit put together by Library Girl (Jennifer LaGarde) is a great way to dive into being a Connected Educator. 
Ian Gabrielson

Digital Learning Resources : The Paradigm Shift - MarkTreadwell.com - 0 views

www.marktreadwell.com/Digital_Resources

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shared by Ian Gabrielson on 16 Apr 14 - No Cached
  • Ian Gabrielson on 16 Apr 14
     
    "Educators and learners can find  below some libraries of Creative Commons licensed Digital Content for use within Learning Management Systems such as the KnowledgeNET. Please check the individual rights associated with each object as these vary from object to object.  As long as you work within the guidelines provided you can use this material without violating the rights assigned to it. "
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