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.
LibriVox LibriVox volunteers record chapters of books in the public domain, and then we release the audio files back onto the net (podcast and catalog). Our objective is to make all books in the public domain available, for free, in audio format on the internet. We are a totally volunteer, open source, free content, public [...]
Clam Chowder: Carnival of the Infosciences #18 I made it into the carnival again!
I have had several things in mind to talk about but time and energy have been rare commodities recently. The Hive Mind: Folksonomies and User-Based Tagging is an excellent overview of the pros and cons of folksonomy organization. They’ve proven to be useful and popular with communities on the Internet, including the librarian community. But [...]
DRM screws my fans, so it screws me is a musician’s view on DRM (digital rights management software). He hits several excellent points about what’s wrong with the current implementations. Is it just me or does anyone else think it’s really screwed up that musicians and authors as content creators have so little choice in [...]
COMM 3344-1 :: Games for the web Below, you will find term papers written by undergraduate students in the class “Games for the Web: Ethnography of Massively Multiplayer On-line Games.” These students used a combination of quantitative and qualitative research methods to explore sociological issues associated with massively multiplayer virtual worlds. Each student in the [...]
Open Access News- Effect of open access on citation rates for a small biomedical journal CONCLUSIONS. Open access was associated with increase in the number of citations received by the articles. It also decreased the lag time between publication and the first citation. For smaller biomedical journals, OA could be one of the means for [...]
Boing Boing: EFF: DMCA exemption process is completely scr0d Every three years, the Copyright Office holds hearings to determine whether they should allow some exceptions to this law. But the process is so tortured and the criteria are so absurd that this process practically never grants an exemption: