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.
PLA Blog – The Official Blog of the Public Library Association:Communication Skills for Managers
David Orenstein’s presentation, in his own words, was a “little schizophrenic.” Schizophrenic or not, he had some excellent information to share that he’s garnered over several years of management experience.
The Shifted Librarian: What I Took Away from the GLS Conference
The most obvious, glaring thing is that librarians (in general) have absolutely no clue about what is going on in this area. Academia is only now starting to do more than just study it, but it’s not even on our radar. I’ve noted before that [...]
RSS4Lib:: Browser Toolbar with RSS Feeds is a great idea. The example only works in IE/win but I’ve heard doing one for Firefox isn’t that difficult. Definately on the “todo” list after I get the new library website up.
Jenny is posting a lot of notes. Not as good as being there but they’re worth reading ;->.
The Shifted Librarian: GLS01: Henry Jenkins on Pop Culture and Learning
The Shifted Librarian: GLS02: James Paul Gee on New Paradigms for Learning
The Shifted Librarian: GLS03: Second Life and User Creation
The Shifted Librarian: GLS04: Games, Learning, & Identity
The Shifted [...]
Lots of great posts from conferences to read.
LITA Blog » Blog Archive » Top Tech Trends – Sunday
LITA Blog » Blog Archive » Leo Klein’s Top Technology Trends
LITA Blog » Blog Archive » Karen’s Uber-Trend
LITA Blog » Blog Archive » Sarah Houghton’s Top Technology Trends
LITA Blog » Blog Archive » Marshall Breeding’s Top Technology Trends
LITA Blog » Blog Archive » Thomas Dowling’s Non-Trends From The Trailing Edge
Definately thought provoking.
Pop-up vulnerability found in major browsers | CNET News.com
According to Secunia, the latest versions of Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer for Mac, Safari, iCab, Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox and Camino are all vulnerable. Opera 7 and 8 are affected, but not 8.01, according to Opera.
Basically, all you have to do is not enter information in pop-up windows.
Boing Boing: DRM apologist circumvents DRM
Michael Gartenberg has grown so frustrated with the DRM on Microsoft Reader files that it would appear he has violated the DMCA in order to strip the files of DRM. He only wanted to read the files he had legitimately purchased.
Boing Boing: Canada’s DMCA dissected
On the heels of the introduction of Canada’s Bill C-60, a Made-in-Canada version of the DMCA, Michael Geist has posted several long, thoughtful blog posts about the bill’s effects on different interests: search engines, ISPs, and P2P users…
Library Marketing-Thinking Outside the Book: Many more marketing materials
Found on Neat New Stuff on the Net: Marketing & PR from the Mid-Hudson Library System. The site includes marketing templates, how-to’s, web links and demographic info for librarians. Enjoy!
Boing Boing: Canada’s DMCA introduced
The Canadian government has introduced a Made-in-Canada version of the US DMCA, a sweeping copyright law that creates a thicket of new rights for entertainment companies, reserving precious little rights for the public.
Laugh or scream time.
Library Web Chic » Blog Archive » E-Reserve Issues
Publishers want to be paid for e-reserves now. Because library’s have so much money, right?
If the current lecture method of teaching doesn’t work very well (And most people I know agree that it doesn’t.), education will most likely be evolving in the next 10-20 years toward [...]
TWAS 503: (Warnings and Promises)
Dearest Industry, I write today in what began, at least, as a conflicted mixture of resignation and alarm. Probably you do not recognize my name, but it’s both embossed and encoded on my credit card, so possibly you should. I have been one of the staunchest defenders of your copyrights ever [...]
Can You Hear Me Now? Communicating Library Services To Distance Education Students And Faculty :: Distance-Educator.com’s Daily News :: Technology, Teaching, News, Research
Academic libraries have responded to the challenge of providing resources and services to off-campus users in a variety of innovative ways. However, recent survey results indicate that users are often not fully aware [...]
Wired News: House Votes to Limit Patriot Act
…lawmakers voted Wednesday to block the Justice Department and the FBI from using the Patriot Act to peek at library records and bookstore sales slips.
A little progress but there’s still a lot left.
LITA Blog » Blog Archive » Welcome to the LITA Blog
ALA Annual is coming up and we’re planning to blog LITA programs and other events of interest to the library technology community. We also have handy links here to ALA, LITA, and the ALA Annual official site and unofficial conference wiki.
Cool.
Digital Web Magazine – The Principles of Design
TechnoBiblio: Dueling Databases
The American Chemical Society (ACS) has recently called for NIH to restrict the information available in its freely accessible database. ACS’s complaint? It claims that PubChem is in direct competition with its own fee-based Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS).
Wasn’t there a recent to-do about the free information from the National Weather Service? It makes [...]
The Online Books Page
Listing over 20,000 free books on the Web With a RSS feed of new entries.
The Shifted Librarian: Speaking about Blogs….
RSS4Lib:: Have You Heard the News Today?
Speakwire will read the contents of a RSS feed. And Talkr turns it into downloadable audio files for your computer or MP3 player.
Boing Boing: Jennifer Government’s author on copyright’s excess
Copyright extensions, of the kind popping up everywhere lately, have nothing to do with encouraging more creative work, and everything to do with protecting the revenue streams of media companies that, a few generations ago, had an executive smart enough to sniff out a popular hit. It’s a [...]
Boing Boing: Savage, brilliant essay on DRM
Don Marti’s posted a scorching, brilliant essay on DRM and why it won’t work and why it doesn’t work and why we should stop trying to make it work.
Open Access and Repositories: Hot Topics reviews the OA session at SLA with some interesting details.
peterme.com: Designing for the Sandbox
In fact, the best thing a designer can do is dictate *as little as possible.* Because the point isn’t to control, it’s to connect–to weave your offering into the complexity of people’s life experiences, to allow them to figure out how to make sense of your offering within their world.
Peter Scott’s Library Blog
Five new Internet tutorials for adult learners have been launched in the RDN Virtual Training Suite:
A really nicely designed site.
LJ has a new website.
Steven bemoans the fact that they still don’t have any RSS feeds. This is really becoming an accessability issue. With the amount of information we have to go through each day, clicking through the website on a regular basis just isn’t going to work.
Bill found a blog. Complete with [...]
This is to the campus web admin.
Yes, I am insane. I’m also opinionated and stubborn. In other words, I’m a librarian. The sooner you give me what I want, the sooner the pain will go away.
SLA 2005 Conference Blog: Go Back to School at Click University
With a crowd of more than 150 looking on, SLA Monday opened its newest member service, Click University.
Click U is an online learning community for continuing professional education for knowledge workers around the world. It is designed to train librarians and information professionals in core [...]
The Importance of Open Access, Open Source, and Open Standards…
These benefits of open access, open source, and open standards are numerous. The benefits include lower costs, great accessibility, and better prospects for long-term preservation of scholarly works. Libraries should embrace all three of these concepts now and in the future. By supporting open access, open [...]
In an attempt to get my unread list in mt aggregator down to something managable, I present the inevitable link list (annotated because some librarians are born, not made).
ALA | Patriot Act Extension Debated at Closed Congressional Meeting
In a closed-door meeting May 26, the Senate Intelligence Committee failed to agree on a proposal that would [...]
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Information Wants To Be Free » Library services to distance learners is a quick guide to getting started on Distance offerings.