Entries from ©ollectanea tagged with 'future of libraries'
Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education -- And Section 108
The Center for Social Media at American University recently launched yet another in its amazing line of best practices guides, The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education. I have received notes from so many people...
Google Book Search -- and Buy
So, at last, the cards are laid on the table and we see what everyone's holding. And guess who's got the winning hand! No surprise there. Google, by a landslide. (Whoops, my subconscious hopes for election day slipping in there...)...
Orphan Works legislation: Round two
Congress reportedly will try to pass orphan works legislation again this session, introducing a bill as early as this week. After its March 13 hearing, at which 6 interested parties presented testimony (including the Register of Copyrights, Marybeth Peters, and...
Section 108 Study Group Report has been published
Lolly Gasaway and Richard Rudick, Co-Chairs of the Section 108 Study Group, have issued their report after a lengthy period of deliberation over quite a few really thorny issues. Readers may recall that last May, Lolly was our guest blogger...
Mass Digitization blogging project completed
After 6 weeks of drafting, posting, tracking blog statistics, and weekly writing in a journal about the experience, I have just completed my blogging experiment at Mass digitization ~ Changing copyright law and policy, by posting the Conclusion today. Here's...
if:book takes a look at the Amazon/Google ebook announcements from earlier this week
I mentioned the announcements about Amazon's new Kindle book reader (wifi'd) and Google's selling access to ebooks online in passing yesterday in a post on a related topic, but today if:book takes a more detailed and future-oriented look at the...
Music desperately pointing the way for publishing... anybody listening?
A couple of months ago, I noticed a tie-in between the publishing industry's future and the introduction of the iPhone reported at Print is Dead, and posted an entry here on the subject (What publishing can learn from the iPhone)....
Siva Vaidhyanathan's fellowship at the Institute for the Future of the Book
One of my favorite blogs is the Institute for the Future of the Book, if:book as it's called, which I read every time it's updated. So I learned last week that Siva Vaidhyanathan would be joining the Institute as its...
What publishing can learn from the iPhone
Are you anticipating the launch of the iPhone in two days? Are you at this moment in a line to buy one? You could be. You probably aren't. But if things go even a little bit like everyone is predicting...
First francophone library signs with Google
I have just returned from a nice 2 week stay in France where I conducted a little research on the French attitude towards the future of libraries in a networked world. In light of the scathing book Jean-Noel Jeanneney, President...
Publishers choosing to do without drm
A fellow Texan, and a fellow Ph.D. candidate (at North Texas State University), Brian Kenney gave a lecture about 2 weeks ago, ALA TechSource | Does Print Still Matter? Brian Kenney on the Future of Content in a 2.0 World,...
Jean-Noel Jeanneney leaves France's Bibliotheque National
I read with interest today that the President of the Bibliotheque National, Jean-Noel Jeanneney, has apparently been forced to resign:Jean-Noel Jeanneney quitte la presidence de la BnF - Tour de Toile du BBF. You might wonder why this seems important...
Digital Video, and a Post-Copyright Era?
Judith Thomas does a masterful job of explaining best practices and challenges in creating a digital motion media collection in this article, Digital Video, the Final Frontier - 1/15/2004 - netConnect. I'm studying digitizing video right now at the iSchool,...
Nice NYT Technology Article on Competing with Google
Check out the NYT Technology article about PARC's startup whose goals are to go head to head with Google: In a Search Refinement, a Chance to Rival Google - New York Times. The idea of a "conversation" with a search...
Wondering what Web 2.0 is about?
If Web 2.0 is a little bit fuzzy for you, have a look at this entrancing YouTube video highlighted on Lessig's blog: Lawrence Lessig. Incredible, no?...
We're Here! Come visit!
Thanks to Kim, Olga, Jack and all those at CIP whose work over the last month or two brought (c)ollectanea to life. This is a wonderful opportunity to expand the good work of the CIP by bringing members of its...
Presses diversifying -- very good news!
Encouraging note in the Feb. 1 Library Journal Academic Newswire, For Oxford University Press, Online Venture Breathes New Life into the Monograph, describes just the kind of thing I'm excited to see in the scholarly publishing arena -- a...
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