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.
Christina’s LIS Rant: AAP hires a PR firm to fight back against open access The Imaginary Journal of Poetic Economics: Stop fighting the inevitable – and free funds for OA! Peter Suber, Open Access News Peter Suber, Open Access News Peter Suber, Open Access News Peter Suber, Open Access News Peter Suber, Open Access News [...]
Tomski: The BBC’s Fifteen Web Principles Build web products that meet audience needs: anticipate needs not yet fully articulated by audiences, then meet them with products that set new standards. (nicked from Google) The very best websites do one thing really, really well: do less, but execute perfectly. (again, nicked from Google, with a tip [...]
Just linking to the original post and some of the responses for my own memory. blyberg.net » AADL.org Goes Social the goblin in the library » Sucking the Suck out of OPACs LibrarianInBlack: AADL goes social Superpatron – Friends of the Library, for the net: Ann Arbor District Library adds patron tagging, rating of items [...]
Linux.com | Libraries facilitate open access to information with open source software Getting libraries in the minds of Unix geeks isn’t a bad idea either…
Koha with Class: Free Hosted Koha for Library Classrooms | oss4lib Just like Dialog, students can now play with Koha during school. Brilliant advertising for Liblime and Koha.
ebyblog » Blog Archive » Identity by URI OpenId really makes the most sense in managing your identity. It’s a lesson we’ve learned on the Internet many times now (and are going to learn many more). In this world, it works better decentralized. It’s an old Internet joke that the ‘Web sees censorship as damage [...]
Building a Library Web Site on the Pillars of Web 2.0
Boing Boing: Giant, amazing study of Free/Open software Rishab Ayer Gosh has led an international, interdisciplinary team of researchers through an enormous study of Free/Open Source Software. The paper, called “Economic impact of open source software on innovation and the competitiveness of the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) sector in the EU,” runs to 287 [...]