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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.

Archive for January, 2007

AAP Article Link List

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
Caveat Lector » AAP/PSP Response, Translated
Peter Suber, [...]

The BBC’s Fifteen Web Principles

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 of the [...]

SOPAC

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
SOPAC, 4 days later

Now [...]

Identity by URI

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 and [...]

Giant, amazing study of Free/Open software

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 [...]