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.
Open Access News: Tim Berners-Lee wins the Millennium Technology Prize Finnish Technology Award Foundation. The prize of one million Euros goes to the inventor of the world wide web who put his invention into the public domain and never tried to profit from it. Congratulations to Tim Berners-Lee and kudos to the Finnish award foundation [...]
Blogging is Booming Super-popular blogger Glen Reynolds, of Instapundit.com, leaves his traffic logs open, where we can see that he averages around 100,000 visitors a day and more than 2 million uniques a month. Considering that he’s only one guy, that’s astounding. By comparison, HoustonChronicle.com reports 1.5 million unique monthly readers. Granted, Instapundit is one [...]
The Shifted Librarian has a couple of encouraging posts up about the circulation of audiobooks in MP3 format in Illinois libraries. They Like Them – They Really, Really Like Them ListenIllinois Successful at Wheaton Public Library, Too!
Copyfight: Record Labels Using “Pirate” Data to sell more CDs Folks keep asking why more artists aren’t breaking into the mainstream through P2P. I think this may provide some answers — they are; the record labels are just taking all the credit.
KMWorld Magazine – The high cost of not finding information In an increasingly information-based world, we turn out complex products that are less tangible than they are knowledge-based. In 2001, IDC began to gather data on what not finding information might cost an organization. We looked at knowledge worker productivity, as well as at lost [...]