Open Access News (Formerly: FOS News): Interoperability between Library Information Services and Learning Environments � Bridging the Gaps The primary purpose of this paper is to explore potential interactions between information environments and learning environments, with emphasis on work that needs to be done involving standards, architectural modelling or interfaces (as opposed to cultural, organizational [...]

Chocolate and Vodka :: Something for Nothing: The Free Culture AudioBook Project is a coherent retelling of what happened when 2 authors published their books online for free at the same time they were published in hardcopy.

Boing Boing: RIAA’s funny bookkeeping turns gains into losses This very good, short article shows the way that the RIAA cooks its books to create losses due to file-sharing when there’s no indication that file-sharing is costing them money.

Tame the Web: Technology and Libraries: 10 Things A Library Can Do to Boost their Techie Stuff* (*without breaking the bank) Well worth a quick look for some great pointers. My library ranked surprisingly high.

A couple of interesting articles from the May Library Journal Born with the Chip Given that the average librarian is a Boomer and over 50, there is a gap of one to two generations between most of the profession and a growing group of our primary users, whom we all need to understand in order [...]

There are a couple of articles about a version of Linux created by a library for their public PCs that apparently is pretty close to Windows. Living with Linux Linux in action: A public library’s success story The software There is also a Desktop Linux being put out by Red Hat at the end of [...]

Open Access News (Formerly: FOS News): How libraries would gain from success of Kahle v. Ashcroft � On behalf of one of the lawyers pursuing the Kahle case, Minow asks librarians and archivists to identify works in their collections dating from 1964 to 1977 which could not be digitized under the current law, but which [...]

Library Journal – Early Career Survival is a great article which talks about job-hunting and early career survival tactics.

ARL 226: Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age Lynch, Clifford A. “Institutional Repositories: Essential Infrastructure for Scholarship in the Digital Age” ARL, no. 226 (February 2003): 1-7. One of the biggest problems in academic and research libraries is the increasing cost of professional journals. All subscription formats are going up but [...]

Boing Boing: Musicians don’t understand copyright, but they don’t like the RIAA suing their fans Musicians don’t understand copyright, but they don’t like the RIAA suing their fans The Pew Internet and American Life project has just concluded a survey of 2,700+ musicians, measuring their attitude to the lawsuits the record labels have brought against [...]