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Creative Librarian http://creativelibrarian.com 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. Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:19:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Simply Audiobooks webstore to carry DRM-free Random House Audio downloads http://creativelibrarian.com/773/simply-audiobooks-webstore-to-carry-drm-free-random-house-audio-downloads/ http://creativelibrarian.com/773/simply-audiobooks-webstore-to-carry-drm-free-random-house-audio-downloads/#comments Fri, 04 Jul 2008 02:19:14 +0000 laura http://creativelibrarian.com/773/simply-audiobooks-webstore-to-carry-drm-free-random-house-audio-downloads/ Simply Audiobooks webstore to carry DRM-free Random House Audio downloads - Boing Boing
Simply Audiobooks — an excellent audiobook retailer in Toronto — has launched an online store selling all of Random House’s DRM-free downloadable titles. Random House is one of the many audiobook publishers that wants to give up on DRM, but they’ve been thrwarted by Audible (the exclusive supplier of audiobook downloads to Amazon and the iTunes Store) because the company won’t sell DRM-free titles even when the publisher and author wish to make their work available without technological restrictions. The good news is that DRM-free formats are much easier to sell and support, which is clearing the way for new entrants into the marketplace like Simply Audiobooks and Zipidee, to compete with Audible.

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Audiobook downloads with no DRM or watermarks from Naxos http://creativelibrarian.com/772/audiobook-downloads-with-no-drm-or-watermarks-from-naxos/ http://creativelibrarian.com/772/audiobook-downloads-with-no-drm-or-watermarks-from-naxos/#comments Tue, 01 Jul 2008 16:42:04 +0000 laura http://creativelibrarian.com/772/audiobook-downloads-with-no-drm-or-watermarks-from-naxos/ Audiobook downloads with no DRM or watermarks from Naxos - Boing Boing
Naxos produces fantastic, professionally read audiobooks of contemporary and classic lit — and they distribute them on CD and as DRM-free, watermark-free MP3s. Basically, this is a company that assumes you’re a valued customer, not a dirty thief. They’re pioneers in the growing field of DRM-free audiobook providers, who, unlike market-leader Audible (a division of Amazon) allow publishers and writers to decide whether or not they want to their books crippled with DRM.

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Blackstone Audio phases out audiobook DRM http://creativelibrarian.com/771/blackstone-audio-phases-out-audiobook-drm/ http://creativelibrarian.com/771/blackstone-audio-phases-out-audiobook-drm/#comments Sat, 21 Jun 2008 10:11:07 +0000 laura http://creativelibrarian.com/771/blackstone-audio-phases-out-audiobook-drm/ Blackstone Audio phases out audiobook DRM - Boing Boing
My literary agent wrote to me this morning to tell me about a letter his agency just received from Blackstone Audio, one of the largest audiobook publishers in the world, announcing that Blackstone was phasing out its use of DRM. Blackstone is contacting the rightsholders for all its titles notifying them that they’ll be releasing their catalog in DRM-free MP3

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Why women quit technology careers http://creativelibrarian.com/770/why-women-quit-technology-careers/ http://creativelibrarian.com/770/why-women-quit-technology-careers/#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 00:27:14 +0000 laura http://creativelibrarian.com/770/why-women-quit-technology-careers/ Why women quit technology careers
June 16, 2008 (Computerworld) What if half the men in science, engineering and technology roles dropped out at midcareer? That would surely be perceived as a national crisis. Yet more than half the women in those fields leave — most of them during their mid- to late 30s.

In this month’s Harvard Business Review, Sylvia Ann Hewlett, Carolyn Buck Luce and Lisa J. Servon describe the Athena Factor, their research project examining the career trajectories of such women. Hewlett, founding president of the Center for Work-Life Policy in New York, told Kathleen Melymuka about what they learned.

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Where they stand: Obama, McCain on the issues http://creativelibrarian.com/769/where-they-stand-obama-mccain-on-the-issues/ http://creativelibrarian.com/769/where-they-stand-obama-mccain-on-the-issues/#comments Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:41:04 +0000 laura http://creativelibrarian.com/769/where-they-stand-obama-mccain-on-the-issues/ FYI
Politics | Where they stand: Obama, McCain on the issues | Seattle Times Newspaper
A look at where Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain stand on a selection of issues as they go head-to-head for the presidency

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10 Tips for Working with the Not-So-Tech-Savvy http://creativelibrarian.com/768/10-tips-for-working-with-the-not-so-tech-savvy/ http://creativelibrarian.com/768/10-tips-for-working-with-the-not-so-tech-savvy/#comments Mon, 16 Jun 2008 03:39:56 +0000 laura http://creativelibrarian.com/768/10-tips-for-working-with-the-not-so-tech-savvy/ Web Worker Daily » Archive 10 Tips for Working with the Not-So-Tech-Savvy «
It’s easy to forget that the average web worker’s skills and knowhow is
quite specialized, even though Internet use is growing gradually over
the years. Your colleagues might have Facebook accounts, but do they
know how to use it for networking? Likewise, a client may have an
existing website, but have they maximized its potential? You might have
been brought in to deal with the tech issues, or you may have some
ideas on how to make things work better. How do you do your job well if
those around you aren’t as knowledgeable in your web working ways?
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Video of the impeachment articles http://creativelibrarian.com/767/video-of-the-impeachment-articles/ http://creativelibrarian.com/767/video-of-the-impeachment-articles/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2008 06:09:33 +0000 laura http://creativelibrarian.com/767/video-of-the-impeachment-articles/ The Raw Story | Kucinich presents Bush impeachment articles
An Ohio Democratic lawmaker and former presidential candidate has presented articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush to Congress.

Thirty-five articles were presented by Rep. Dennis Kucinich to the House of Representatives late Monday evening, airing live on C-SPAN.

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Bush Impeached? http://creativelibrarian.com/766/bush-impeached/ http://creativelibrarian.com/766/bush-impeached/#comments Tue, 10 Jun 2008 01:58:45 +0000 laura http://creativelibrarian.com/766/bush-impeached/ Daily Kos: BREAKING ON C-SPAN: Kucinich introducing impeachment
Congressman Dennis Kucinich is on the floor of the House of Representatives right now introducing 35 articles of impeachment against President George W. Bush.

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US reportedly pulls out of UN Human Rights Council http://creativelibrarian.com/765/us-reportedly-pulls-out-of-un-human-rights-council/ http://creativelibrarian.com/765/us-reportedly-pulls-out-of-un-human-rights-council/#comments Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:06:06 +0000 laura http://creativelibrarian.com/765/us-reportedly-pulls-out-of-un-human-rights-council/ US reportedly pulls out of UN Human Rights Council - Boing Boing

The Human Rights Tribune is reporting that the US has pulled out of the United Nations’ Human Rights Council, “an international body within the United Nations System. Its stated purpose is to address human rights violations.”

This doesn’t sound good.

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John McCain vows to continue Bush’s illegal warrantless wiretapping program http://creativelibrarian.com/764/john-mccain-vows-to-continue-bushs-illegal-warrantless-wiretapping-program/ http://creativelibrarian.com/764/john-mccain-vows-to-continue-bushs-illegal-warrantless-wiretapping-program/#comments Wed, 04 Jun 2008 15:27:09 +0000 laura http://creativelibrarian.com/764/john-mccain-vows-to-continue-bushs-illegal-warrantless-wiretapping-program/ John McCain vows to continue Bush’s illegal warrantless wiretapping program - Boing Boing

John McCain has changed his position on illegal warrantless wiretapping: he used to think that the President had to uphold the nation’s laws. Now he says that the Constitution is subordinate to the all-powerful executive order.

My favorite line on this comes from the chickenhawks who say that the Fourth Amendment was written before the All Powerful Threat of Terrorism. Sure thing. Ben Franklin and his pals couldn’t possibly have foreseen a world in which the very idea of America was under some kind of military threat. Those candyasses didn’t understand what war was about. They were armchair theorists, civilians who’d never anticipated foreign soldiers on American soil — surely if they’d known that America might some day face an actual existential risk, they would have put a little asterisk next to each clause of the Bill of Rights leading to a footnote that said, “Unless the king president really, really needs to do it.”

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