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.
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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? [...]
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.