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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]