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Scott Peterson

Publishers and Library Groups Spar in Appeal to Ruling on Electronic Course Reserves - 0 views

chronicle.com/...136995

Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 15 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 15 Feb 13
     
    Some of the latest developments in the ongoing copyright infringement case with Georgia State going back to 2008. A judge last year had granted a nearly complete victory ruling that only 5 of the 99 instances broke copyright. However, the ruling has been appealed and there is some question if the DOJ may file a brief siding with the publishers.
Scott Peterson

Google's Library in the Sky Grows - 0 views

www.pcmag.com/...0,2817,2421377,00.asp

Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 05 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 05 Jul 13
     
    The legal debate over Google's used of scanned books continues, with a legal victory in the reversal of a court order allowing authors to sue as a group. An eventual outcome is the legal definition of fair use may see a court case that makes clear definitions everyone will be able to benefit from.
Megan Durham

Is It More Than "Old Book Smell"? - 1 views

http://www.ilab.org/eng/documentation/677-is_it_more_than_old_book_smell.html

library

started by Megan Durham on 24 Jun 13 no follow-up yet
Megan Durham

Discarded Books, Recovered Nostalgia - 1 views

http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/17/discarded-books-recovered-nostalgia/?_r=0

Professional Development library

started by Megan Durham on 24 Jun 13 no follow-up yet
adrienne_mobius

The Prescription for Finding Healthcare Information | American Libraries Magazine - 0 views

www.americanlibrariesmagazine.org/...finding-healthcare-information

Obamacare Affordable Care Act

shared by adrienne_mobius on 05 Jul 13 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 05 Jul 13
     
    "The ALA Washington Office held a special informational session on Sunday afternoon to let librarians get a head start on helping their patrons enroll for healthcare through the new Affordable Care Act, which aims to provide reasonable health insurance for all Americans equally, regardless of any pre-existing conditions."
Megan Durham

Google Brings History to Life with Online Exhibitions - 0 views

mashable.com/...o-life-with-online-exhibitions

Professional Development library technology google

shared by Megan Durham on 19 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 19 Oct 12
     
    This article is about Google Cultural Institute. So far there are 42 exhibitions about 42 historical events. This article is pretty straightforward, but you should checkout the real deal : http://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/#!home All of these are beautifully done and full of great detail. Would be perfect for school projects.
Jennifer Parsons

Tor/Forge E-book Titles to Go DRM-Free | Tor.com - 0 views

www.tor.com/...e-e-book-titles-to-go-drm-free

drm publishing ebooks libraries

shared by Jennifer Parsons on 24 Apr 12 - No Cached
  • “Our authors and readers have been asking for this for a long time,” said president and publisher Tom Doherty. “They’re a technically sophisticated bunch, and DRM is a constant annoyance to them. It prevents them from using legitimately-purchased e-books in perfectly legal ways, like moving them from one kind of e-reader to another.”
  • Jennifer Parsons on 24 Apr 12
     
    This is pretty darn huge.  Keep in mind that Tor says nothing about whether piracy is bad, or whether or not electronic books should be cheaper, or more expensive.  But they do concede with this decision that DRM is more a hindrance than a help.
Donna Bacon

New Partnership of Barnes & Noble and Microsoft Will Promote Digital Textbooks - chroni... - 5 views

www.readability.com/read

shared by Donna Bacon on 01 May 12 - No Cached
  • Donna Bacon on 01 May 12
     
    College students still don't want e-textbooks!  Wonder if this partnership will help students change their minds.....
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  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    Are you serious? They LOVE e-textbooks... you can pirate them instead of spending $160 on a dead tree...
  • Donna Bacon on 02 May 12
     
    Did you read the article???? It says e-textbooks are just not taking off....they seem to like the dead trees....
  • Sharla Lair on 02 May 12
     
    While getting my MLIS, I was often given the option of buying the textbook or the e-textbook. The highest priority for me was $$$$$. eTextbooks often cost more than the el cheapos in the bookstore, AND you don't even get to keep the e version. I was usually given access to the etextbook for only 4 months. To remedy this issue all together I got my books through MOBIUS! That way I didn't have to pay anything and I didn't have to store the book after the semester was over. For students to adopt e-texts, the model has to be changed. Make them pay a flat fee with their tuition. Call it a library fee or information fee. Then give them access to the required texts while they are enrolled in a course at no additional cost. Make the texts collaborative so digital notes can be taken perhaps Diigo style so they can be shared and commented on. There is a cool tool called Citelighter http://www.citelighter.com/. Citelighter is a virtual highlighter that automates the research and paper writing process. It allows the user to find and capture unique facts online, automatically generate citations, and write better quality papers in less time. They just launched a pro version in a partnership with Cengage. Citelighter Pro users are able to add to their experience with materials from Cengage Learning. If you make it affordable, accessible, and social, college students will dig it!
  • anonymous on 02 May 12
     
    @donna I skimmed it. They are cheaper in some cases than the book new - while buying a used book ten selling it back is cheaper in the long run. Also currently ebooks don't have any really compelling features over the paper ones. Still, I'm saying that the point of view that they "aren't taking off" just means the companies selling them haven't figured out how to make money off of them. I know from talking to friends that ebooks are fairly popular, but when people pirate them these companies can't track them. On the whole I agree with Sharla - if they made the product better and keep it affordable they will see sales. If I were going to college today I'd pirate every book I need. No way am I carrying all those heavy things, but I can't afford to pay for them. It's like with music and movies. I quit pirating that stuff because Netflix/Hulu/Spotify got good and cheap. If the ebooks improve, people will pay for the same reason - it's easier.
  • Jennifer Parsons on 02 May 12
     
    I think the reason why the print versions are preferred is here: ""Most e-textbooks are slightly glorified PDF's of the print version, although that's changing," [a National College Stores Association rep] said. "Digital e-books sell for about 60 percent of the cost of a new printed copy. Since students can go to their college store and rent a print copy for between 33 and 55 percent of the cost of a new book, the e-book really needs to have more functionality to make the higher price worth their while."" Add to that what Sharla pointed out-- you can't even keep the ebooks because you're really just leasing them-- and it's no wonder nobody's interested. It's a shame, too, because I'd love to be able to do things like textbook exercises in an ebook on a tablet, or make notes in the electronic text to export and read later.
Jennifer Parsons

Professional Competencies for Reference and User Services Librarians | Reference & User... - 0 views

www.ala.org/...professional

library professional competencies reference user librarians

shared by Jennifer Parsons on 04 May 12 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Parsons on 04 May 12
     
    Every time I look over RUSA's standards, I'm struck by how relevant they are to what we do as customer service professionals.
Jennifer Parsons

You need an R&D culture, not an R&D department | It's Not About the Books - 1 views

hughrundle.net/...d-culture-not-an-rd-department

library opac metadata outsourcing research

shared by Jennifer Parsons on 23 Mar 12 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Parsons on 23 Mar 12
     
    Hmm.  Justin, you're our R&D person.  What say you?
  • anonymous on 23 Mar 12
     
    Completely agree.
Jennifer Parsons

Technology - Suzanne Fischer - Nota Bene: If You 'Discover' Something in an Archive, It... - 1 views

www.theatlantic.com/...258538

library cataloging archives

shared by Jennifer Parsons on 06 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Says one curator, "I wish there were more articles headlined 'Thorough, Accurate Cataloging Pays Off!' "
  • So where was this document found? Was it in a suitcase in the attic of Dr. Leale's great-great-great-great granddaughter? Well, no, it was at the National Archives. Was it in a warped metal filing cabinet down a neglected set of stairs labeled "Beware of the Leopard"? No, it was in a box of other incoming correspondence to the Surgeon General, filed alphabetically under "L" for Leale. In short, this document that had been excavated from the depths of the earth with great physical effort was right where it was supposed to be.
  • In the case of the recent press on the Leale report, the report had not yet been catalogued, cutting off discovery for ordinary researchers searching with finding aids and online catalogues.
  • ...2 more annotations...
  • This is because archivists catalogue not at "item level," a description of every piece of paper, which would take millennia, but at "collection level," a description of the shape of the collection, who owned it,
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  • Jennifer Parsons on 06 Jul 12
     
    A somewhat lighthearted response to all the excitement about the "discovery" of the Leale report, a report made to the Surgeon General by the first doctor to treat Abraham Lincoln after he was shot at Ford's Theater.   It's very interesting that, even though it was in the collection, where it should be, no one thought to use it in research until now.  
Sharla Lair

Reading Around - Architecture - Domus - 1 views

www.domusweb.it/...reading-around

library mobile bookmobile

shared by Sharla Lair on 12 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Sharla Lair on 12 Jul 12
     
    This is a beautiful book mobile!
adrienne_mobius

Changing the Face of Librarianship « Hack Library School - 1 views

hacklibschool.wordpress.com/...ging-the-face-of-librarianship

librarianship Incunabula

shared by adrienne_mobius on 13 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • adrienne_mobius on 13 Jul 12
     
    "You're not familiar with the Incunabula? Are you a librarian?"" If not, that's okay. "Our profession's new demands require librarians who can write regular expressions, tweak stylesheets, and manage databases."
Megan Durham

Alexandria 2.0: One Millionaire's Quest to Build the Biggest Library on Earth - 6 views

www.wired.com/...brewster-kahle

shared by Megan Durham on 20 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 20 Aug 12
     
    I just thought this was interesting. Also how long do you have to work at MOBIUS before you get a sculpture of yourself?
  • Sharla Lair on 20 Aug 12
     
    Hmmm....
Megan Durham

British charity calls for '50 Shades of Grey' book burning - 0 views

www.latimes.com/...rning-20120823,0,5503067.story

library

shared by Megan Durham on 24 Aug 12 - No Cached
  • Megan Durham on 24 Aug 12
     
    Forgive me but the bookseller in me found this amusing and disturbing at the same time. I knew this books was "hot" but really? A British charity has called for a burning of the book "50 Shades of Grey" by E.L. James. Wearside Women in Need, which focuses on domestic violence, has asked readers to drop off books for a planned bonfire on Nov. 5.
  • Megan Durham on 24 Aug 12
     
    This has to be my favorite quote of the day! "I couldn't find anything that turned me on, other than the fact that he gives her a rare copy of 'Tess of the D'Urbervilles.' "
  • adrienne_mobius on 24 Aug 12
     
    Megan, that's my favorite quote of the day, too.
Scott Peterson

How College Students Manage Technology While in the Library during Crunch Time - 0 views

projectinfolit.org/...11_TechStudy_FullReport1.2.pdf

Professional Development

shared by Scott Peterson on 13 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • Scott Peterson on 13 Sep 12
     
    An interesting read even if it is the familiar territory of user surveys. Some results that stood out is 85% of users were consider "light" technology users. Also, Facebook time during study crunches is more like a yawn or break than anything facilitating networking. Another concerning result was that only about 11% used scholarly research databases.
Debbie Luchenbill

An Open Letter to the Look That Slowly Forms On Your Face When I Tell You I'm a Librarian - 1 views

www.mcsweeneys.net/...en-i-tell-you-i-am-a-librarian

librarians humor

shared by Debbie Luchenbill on 14 Sep 12 - No Cached
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  • Debbie Luchenbill on 14 Sep 12
     
    A little librarian "humor" in McSweeney's. I've certainly had something similar happen on more than one occasion... (I actually think that the "An Open Letter to the People in Charge of Commercials Targeting Women" is even funnier, but it doesn't have anything to do with libraries.)
Jennifer Parsons

Digital Preservation in a Box | A product of the National Digital Stewardship Alliance - 0 views

dpoutreach.net

libraries OA open_access digital preservation preservation

shared by Jennifer Parsons on 27 Jul 12 - No Cached
  • Jennifer Parsons on 27 Jul 12
     
    A nice collection of information for those new to the concept of digital preservation, as well as some tools to get your institution started.
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