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The decaying web and our disappearing history - 1 views

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    "Our online history is disappearing at an astonishing rate, creating a black hole for future historians. "
Scott Peterson

R-Squared Conference Blog - 0 views

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    An interesting blog for a conference that took place in Telluride, Colorado, last month which looked at risk and rewards and encouraged innovative thinking. Some of the presentation resources are available here: http://rsquaredconference.org/program/resources
Scott Peterson

Chemical Society Pricing Has Librarians Up In Arms - 0 views

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    SUNY Potsdam is intending to cancel subscriptions to the American Chemical Society's journals as they would consume 10 percent of the library's acquisitions budget. The article looks at one of the biggest problems facing academic libraries and serials, namely journals they are required to carry because of accreditation or approval, yet they either can't afford or carry to carry to the detriment of other departments they try to serve.
Scott Peterson

Your right to resell your own stuff is in peril - 0 views

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    I would say this article is focusing more on headlines and making noise than something actually about to happen. The story is about a case going to the Supreme Court where a student from Thailand was studying at Cornell University and found that his textbooks made by Wiley were substantially cheaper in his home country. He began buying books there and reselling them in the U.S. on Ebay, making over $1.2 million. Wiley accused him of copyright infringement, and the student responded this was protected under the first sale doctrine. What is at stake is how this doctrine may be redefined; what is unique is not that the goods were made in foreign country, but owned and marketed by a U.S. company who sought to restrict sales of those items in the U.S.
Jennifer Parsons

myliblog: Publishers ask for business models and don't know what a library is - 0 views

  • I recently conducted a focus group with local authors, and put this proposition to them: * Would you consider DONATING a single copy of your ebook file to the library if we agree to... * Preserve, review, recommend, and digitally display it; * Buy an extra copy for every four people who are waiting for it; * Put a "click here to buy" button in our catalog, with the understanding that you'll share in the revenue of the sale (say, we take 10% AND YOU GET 90%). Guess what? They said, "Yes." Are we talking to the right people?
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    Since ALA President Maureen Sullivan threw down the proverbial gauntlet to publishers and they've picked it up, there's been a lot of inspired responses.  Jamie LaRue has a radical one himself-- circumvent the publishers, and ask the authors how they'd like their electronic books to be distributed. It's a bold proposition (posing the question, "Are publishers necessary?"), but certainly a way for libraries to work with authors to maximize their profits.
Megan Durham

Responsive web design and libraries - 1 views

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    Most exciting article I've read about responsive web design!
Megan Durham

School libraries without books - 0 views

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    When I read the first part of the article I thought "Oh e-books and other electronic resources. That's cool." But then I read on-I just couldn't believe the books were "lost" where have all the books gone? Very interesting article and some of the comments brought up other good points too.
Megan Durham

Texas School District Reportedly Threatening Students Who Refuse Tracking ID, Can't Vot... - 1 views

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    I posted something about this a couple weeks ago and then found this. Very interesting. We'll see how it plays out, but feels very 1984.
adrienne_mobius

Newsweek magazine to stop printing, go all-digital - Yahoo! News - 1 views

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    Print dies: Newsweek to go all-digital. The magazine will be subscription-based and available on e-readers.
Debbie Luchenbill

Flavorwire » Bizarre-Looking Libraries from All Over the World - 1 views

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    There are some amazingly awesome buildings pictured here! I'm thinking we need to road trip/fly to some of these.
Scott Peterson

Amazon Wipes Customer's Account, Locks All Ebooks, Says 'Find A New Retailer' When She ... - 0 views

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    An article that revisits an older issue (Amazon wiping or removing a book from a Kindle), just this time it was an entire eBook collection and was deleted because of a problem with the user's account. It reinforces what copyright holders have always had but weren't able to enforce until the digital era, that users have only rights to access or use a work, not to actually own it, and those rights can be limited. Further, Amazon is a private company that can dictate policies; all the user knows is her account is "related" to a blocked account without knowing why or how.
Scott Peterson

Rent Hikes May Write Final Chapter on Bookstores - 0 views

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    An article on what is a local issue--the Mission District in San Francisco, but addresses the larger issue of the financial problems local independent booksellers are facing, especially with trying to keep a physical brick-and-mortar presence.
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