An ebook plan by Iris Jastram and Steve Lawson
Wed 9 Mar 2011, 8:50 am
Iris and I came up with a plan we like for ebooks in libraries that puts the emphasis on library ownership and control.
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Archive for the "Digital libraries" Category
Is Google Scholar a database killer?
Tue 30 Nov 2010, 4:45 pm
A recent article argues that Google Scholar’s improved coverage of the online scholarly literature means that libraries should consider canceling abstracting and indexing databases. I can’t see how that would work out well.
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Jailbreak your library?
Wed 7 Apr 2010, 9:40 am
Some disconnected thoughts on librarians, vendors, Scylla, Charybdis.
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Clinical Reader: from zero to negative sixty with one bogus threat
Mon 13 Jul 2009, 1:58 pm
About an hour ago, I had never heard of Clinical Reader. Now, I would never use, trust or recommend them, and am happy to share my opinion with you, dear reader.
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Special collections and the public domain
Thu 5 Feb 2009, 11:28 am
It’s commonplace for libraries to assert rights they don’t have when it comes to the reproduction and publication of public domain images. That doesn’t make it right.
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Thanksgiving masking
Wed 26 Nov 2008, 12:06 pm
Photos from Thanksgiving, 1911.
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Reblogging JSTOR
Fri 19 Sep 2008, 9:59 pm
People geek out over JSTOR on Tumblr, which is pretty cute.
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Omeka: WordPress for your digital library
Wed 20 Feb 2008, 4:11 pm
I’m excited about Omeka, new digital collection management software from the Center for History and New Media.
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Tech-nos
Sun 17 Feb 2008, 11:09 pm
Jumping in on a little memlet: just how technologically ignorant are you? And why is that important?
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Oh, the digital humanities!
Mon 4 Feb 2008, 11:19 pm
Is it just me, or are digital humanities projects becoming more common and more interesting?
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Institutional repositories: running the numbers
Thu 1 Nov 2007, 2:45 pm
Brian “Ubiquitous Librarian” Mathews is thinking about repositories.
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The nineteenth century on random access
Tue 28 Aug 2007, 10:32 pm
Thoughts on Patrick Leary’s article “Googling the Victorians,” and Google Book Search.
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A study of scanning habits
Wed 15 Aug 2007, 11:32 pm
Books, I believe, aren’t just “containers” for “texts,” but something more problematic. I look at Paul Duguid’s article on Tristram Shandy and Google Books, and quote Dorothea Salo for good measure.
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A few thoughts on “University Publishing in a Digital Age”
Thu 9 Aug 2007, 9:12 am
Some of my notes on the recent report from Ithaka on the future of the university press.
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Colorado Academic Library Summit
Tue 30 Jan 2007, 3:24 pm
I don’t know how many Colorado academic librarians read this blog, but I wanted to take a moment to point out Colorado Academic Library Summit 2007, a conference planned for May 31 and June 1, 2007 at the Sheraton Denver West. The theme is Changing Cultures: Collaborations, Social Networking and New Technologies. Here is what [...]
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Why bother with social software at the liberal arts college?
Fri 3 Nov 2006, 4:14 pm
In a post on ACRLog, Marilyn R. Pukkila, Head of Instructional Services at Colby College Libraries, asks Just How Connected Are They?, “they” being her undergraduates. She says that she asked a few students in student government about podcasts and Second Life. Their resonse was a resounding “hunh?” So she asks: If they don’t know [...]
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Browsing bits
Thu 31 Aug 2006, 11:41 pm
Bound volumes of journals covered by JSTOR online. There is a very interesting article in the September 1 issue of the Chronicle of Higher Education entitled Library Renovation Leads to Soul Searching at Cal Poly (note: that link will self-destruct after five days. Chronicle subscribers can always use this permalink to the article). It would [...]
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A Library 2.0 skeptic’s reading list
Fri 26 May 2006, 8:34 pm
Walt Crawford recently offered an “apology” of sorts on his blog Walt at Random for being the only person that the Library 2.0 proponents tend to cite as a Library 2.0 critic or skeptic. His January 2006 survey of the state of “Library 2.0 and ‘Library 2.0′” (link to pdf or html; it’s long, so [...]
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Still a Second Life n00b
Thu 11 May 2006, 3:16 pm
Two weeks ago, Michael Sauers said I was a “Second Life n00b” (or newbie, or clueless new guy) and oh, was he ever on target. Here’s a shot from my misadventures last night at the Second Life Library 2.0. Yes, that is my avatar, Hatchibombotar Stein, with a Bible on his head. Planetneutral (aka Greg) [...]
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Life 2.0
Tue 25 Apr 2006, 6:49 am
So that’s my Second Life avatar, Hatchibombotar Stein, standing in front of the horse statue that is outside the Second Life Library 2.0. I may end up making him blue like Krishna or Dr. Manhattan or a Smurf, but he’s OK for the time being. If I ever have some time to burn, I might [...]
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Digital Letters: a blast from the past
Mon 20 Mar 2006, 10:09 pm
Back in 2002, I was the Digital Projects Librarian at the Science and Engineering Library at the University of California, San Diego. My boss at the time, Anna Gold, suggested that I could make myself useful by trying to keep the rest of the staff up-to-date on what was happening with the Digital Library Program [...]
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LibraryThing reverse engineering FRBR?
Thu 23 Feb 2006, 4:06 pm
It looks like Tim Spalding at LibraryThing is reverse engineering FRBR. That is the thought that leapt to mind, but I felt a little unsure about blogging it, as I’m not an expert in FRBR or in the exact way that LibraryThing is combining different editions into single “works” (as seen in the Invisible Man [...]
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Meme 2.0
Wed 22 Feb 2006, 10:43 pm
I was in the virtual peanut gallery at this morning’s SirsiDynix Institute Conversation: “The 2.0 Meme – Web 2.0, Library 2.0, Librarian 2.0.” The panel was the Library 2.0 Gang of Four, i.e., Stephen Abram, John Blyberg, Michael Casey, and Michael Stephens. All four men were in good form, sounding the themes that are familiar [...]
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Zeldman on "Web 3.0" -or- What are we doing right?
Fri 20 Jan 2006, 11:47 pm
Thanks to TangognaT’s (whom I have now just linked to twice this evening, and whose palindromic nom de blog I have only just now figured out) link, I read web designer and standards evangelist Jeffrey Zeldman’s article Web 3.0. The article and ideas don’t map seamlessly to Library 2.0; libraries never had a “bubble” that [...]
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A Library 2.0 hangover
Tue 10 Jan 2006, 1:58 pm
Alternate titles for this post: There is no such thing as Library 2.0 and this is a blog post about it. (Apologies for bastardizing the first line of Steven Shapin’s book The Scientific Revolution.) How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? And are pin-dancing angels really Library 2.0? I have spent [...]
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Library 2.0: groping toward a definition through comments
Thu 5 Jan 2006, 9:29 pm
I have been continuing to think about Library 2.0, whatever it may be (aren’t we up to library 2.0.1 or something?), but still don’t have a nice juicy post put together for See Also yet. I have, however, been quite busy with the comments on other blogs. I hope this isn’t too cheesy, but I [...]
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Librarian code skillz
Fri 16 Dec 2005, 10:41 pm
Do librarians need to be programmers? As the Simpsons’ Reverend Lovejoy says, “short answer, no with an if; long answer, yes with a but.” This memelet – librarians as coders – has been going around for the past few months. I first saw it when librarian.net linked to Dan Chudnov’s post A new era of [...]
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Library 2.0 / Library 360 / Library 3-D
Fri 2 Dec 2005, 10:34 am
Some time soon I plan to jump into the Library 2.0 / Web 2.0 fray (I have no idea what it means, but I’m for it! I want my Library 2.0!), but in the meantime, I’m digging TangognaT’s snarky post on Library 360 (which I found via Information Wants to Be Free) The main post [...]
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Fewer words = better search?
Tue 22 Nov 2005, 9:36 pm
The post, eBay’s “fewer words” search from Jason on Signal vs. Noise struck a chord with me. He points out that when searching multiple words on eBay, if your search isn’t successful, eBay will show you how many hits you might get if you removed one or more words from your search (see my whimsical [...]
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Is Michael Gorman’s term up yet?
Mon 7 Nov 2005, 10:56 pm
Just as I was beginning to forget about ALA President Michael Gorman, he shows up in my aggravator, er, aggregator again. First with the quotes in the Wall Street Journal article (see also the commentary on ACRLog and CopyCense [via librarian.net]), and now with his address to the CLA as covered by Librarian in Black [...]
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Public domain library books now on Google Print
Thu 3 Nov 2005, 7:17 am
Today, Google Print begins returning results for full scans of public domain books from the Library Project portion of Google Print. There may be an easier way to find these books, but I found them by going to the advanced print search and entering appropriate dates in the “publication dates” fields (say 1500 to 1930). [...]
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Internet Librarian Keynote: Google: Catalyst for Digitization?
Wed 26 Oct 2005, 1:18 pm
This was an entertaining session, set up as a confrontation, but really Roy Tennant and Richard Wiggins were, I believe, presenting different facets and perspectives on similar goals and desires. Wiggins was looking more at the possibilities and promise, with Tennant reminding us of the problems and pitfalls still surrounding Google’s digitization efforts. Both are great speakers, and Adam Smith from Google was again showing goodwill and a good sense of humor. Click through for the play-by-play.
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Internet Librarian: Preparing for Electronic Resources Management
Wed 26 Oct 2005, 12:17 pm
Jeff Wisniewski, University of Pittsburgh More and more E-content, more and more E-only with no paper to fall back on. The ERM marketplace (in broad terms) is a very young marketplace. Many commercial products are less than a year old. What do you want? Define your problem and your universe (just databases? databases and E-journals? [...]
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Internet Librarian: Google-brary and Tomorrow’s Megalibrary
Wed 26 Oct 2005, 2:58 am
Stephen Abram called this “the Internet Librarian Tuesday night rave,” and we did seem to teeter on the edge a bit, boys and girls (though Steven Cohen had the light show earlier today). This session had a bit of everything: visions of smaller libraries withering in the white heat of Google Print; librarians hissing at [...]
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