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.
David Lee King » Blog Archive » David’s First Experiment with Screencasting is a perfect example of how and why screencasting is so useful. I’m subbed to a wonderful daily screencast for photoshop and photography. There are some things on the Internet that just seeing the other guys screen makes so much more sense than [...]
blyberg.net » OPACs in the frying pan, Vendors in the fire A Wandering Eyre » OPACs (everyone together now) SUCK Rethink the role of the library catalog | TechEssence.Info The topic of catalogs has come up again (Does it ever really leave?). And they’re thinking about redesigning it according to what it’s actually used for. [...]
Peter Suber, Open Access News Springer proposes a policy that would require full-text open access immediately upon publication –provided that the policy makes clear that publishing in peer-reviewed journals is an inseparable part of research and therefore that the funds for doing so (article processing fees) will be available to researchers as a special overhead [...]
Boing Boing: Ex-RIAA head Hilary Rosen rethinks lawsuits and DRM Hilary Rosen, the former head of the RIAA, who oversaw the lawsuits against Napster, Audiogalaxy and MP3.com, has published an editorial questioning the idea of suing music fans as a way of building a sustainable music business. She’s also questioned the usefulness of DRM, noting [...]