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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.

Archive for May, 2004

Libraries and Learning

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 [...]

Something for Nothing

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.

RIAA Cooks

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.

Cheap Tech Solutions

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.

LJ

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 [...]

Desktop Linux

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 [...]

Help Free Old Works

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 [...]

Early Career Survival

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

Institutional Repositories

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 [...]

Musicians & Copyright

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 [...]