The Creative Librarian is a hub for matters important to librarians/information scientists of today. There is a definite lean towards electronic issues, however it isn't restricted to only those. Hopefully this site will also be useful for informing non-librarians on these issues as so many of them affect us all.
Huffaker, David, spinning yarns around the digital fire First Monday Volume 9, Number 1 � January 5th 2004. http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_1/huffaker/ this paper will explore the importance of dialogue, storytelling and collaboration in children’s learning, followed by examples of digital technologies that support them. This paper is more relevant to education than to libraries. However, I think [...]
WorkingForChange-This Modern World: Reference Sources of Terror Just because it’s funny.
This won’t be news to most librarians but perhaps it will be a useful reference. Dorothea Salo (markup geek and library science student) has done an excellent and entertaining job of spelling out one of the major problems faced by academic libraries today, as personified by the publishing company Elsevier.
The Digital Preservation Tutorial from the Cornell library is extremely well done.
Bonaccorsi, Andrea and Rossi, Cristina, Altruistic individuals, selfish firms? First Monday Volume 9, Number 1 � January 5th 2004. http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue9_1/bonaccorsi/index.html During 2002, we conducted a survey on 146 Italian firms supplying Open Source software. This paper compares our data on firms� motivations with data emerging from surveys made on individual programmers. We analyse the role [...]
mediAgora defines a fair, workable market model that works with the new realities of digital media, instead of fighting them. I don’t know if this model is really workable but it is something to think about. There is also a blog
LIScareer.com : Librarians in the Information Age: Alternative Uses of MLS Degrees My personal favorite is the manager of a store that sells sex toys. Not just because of the off-the-wall nature of the job but because she relates it to her degree. She mentions doing “reference interviews” to find out what the customer wants [...]
Bush Grabs New Power for FBI | ReachCustomersOnline.com The US Bill of Rights and the Constitution no longer apply when you buy insurance, travel, real estate, stocks, jewelry, cars, casinos, and even use the Post Office. You have no rights.
BW Online | January 12, 2004 | Asia Loves Linux — And Microsoft Scrambles China, Japan, and South Korea, for instance, are working to develop an operating system more attuned to their character-based languages that will likely be modeled after Linux. And if they’re careful, it will still work with western computers, giving them the [...]
Boston.com / Business / Technology / Open-source battle is heating up