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Swartz Faces Additional Charges in Alleged JSTOR Theft
Seth Finkelstein’s blog alerted me to the fact that the case against Aaron Swartz for stealing JTSOR files had expanded from four felony counts to thirteen. The overview of the revised charges:...
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Serving Up Really Large Images
Recently I came across some open source software for serving really large images on the web, and as the proprietor of a photography web site, I was immediately intrigued. What if, I thought, I could...
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HathiTrust Ruled Fair Use
From a WIred Magazine article: A federal judge on Wednesday threw out a copyright infringement lawsuit against universities that participated in a massive book-digitization project in conjunction with...
View ArticleDigital Content Is SO Broken
I don’t need to be a rocket scientist to know that the e-book market is A World of Hurt for libraries. I don’t even know where to begin in listing the litany of damage that the ebook market presents...
View ArticleComing Soon to a Library Near You: The Short-Form Monograph
Jennifer Howard has an interesting piece over on The Chronicle of Higher Education, in which she describes a number of academic efforts to publish short form ebooks instead of the usual weighty...
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Fostering Female Technology Leadership in Libraries
Last week I gave a talk at Internet Librarian for which I created a slide that highlighted the gender imbalances of various professions (see picture). I’ve worked in libraries my entire adult life, and...
View ArticleCrowdsourcing Archival Transcription
In a recent post, Rose Holley describes how the National Archives of Australia is using crowdsourcing to help transcribe scanned archival descriptions. Dubbed “The Hive” (a play on [arc]Hive), the site...
View ArticleA $1,500 DIY Robotic Book Scanner
Recently a Google engineer unveiled a do-it-yourself (DIY) robotic book scanner. As reported by The Verge, Dany Qumsiyeh and a team of colleagues constructed it out of sheet metal, scanner parts, and...
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Unglue.it is Back With 4 More Titles
I’ve noted before the efforts of the Gluejar team to “unglue” books by raising enough money to buy the permission of the copyright holder to put the book out in a special e-book edition in all sorts of...
View ArticleLibrary of Congress’ BIBFRAME Initiative: Part 1
Ever since the Library of Congress announced an effort to lead us beyond MARC a year ago last May, many of us have been wondering just what the effort would produce. With the recent release of a...
View ArticleLibrary of Congress’ BIBFRAME Initiative: Part 2
As I described in Part 1, the Library of Congress’ “BIBFRAME” initiative is finally becoming a lot more public. With the release of the report cited in the previous post, details are now becoming a bit...
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Major Milestone for the Wayback Machine
I can’t begin to recall how many times I have relied on the Internet Archive’s “Wayback Machine” to fetch a file that I had inadvertently deleted without a backup. Or checked out how bad my web design...
View Article“Library Link of the Day” Turns 10
As I do virtually every day, today I received an email in my box with the subject “Library Link of the Day”. Some years ago I signed up for this service and I haven’t regretted it since. As advertised,...
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A Digital Birthday Present for Jack London
Tonight I will be attending the 137th birthday celebration for Jack London, put on by the Jack London Foundation in Sonoma Valley where I live. Jack lived here for many years, built his “Wolf House”...
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So You Want To Be A Librarian
Thanks to Unglue.it, it just got a lot easier to answer the question implied by the title of this post. This is because that title, written by Lauren Pressley, is now open for all because of the...
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Being Different, Part 1: What It Means To Be Different
I will be participating in the ALIA Information Online conference in Brisbane, Australia this month. One of the most interesting and enjoyable activities I will be participating in is a seven minute...
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Being Different, Part 2: The Topography of Skill Acquisition
In Part 1 of this series, I wrote about what I think makes someone “different”, in relation to the ALIA Information Online Conference’s theme “be different. do different.” I asserted that it was...
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Being Different, Part 3: The Plain of Suckitude
In previous posts I discussed what “being different” meant to me and sketched out my “topography of skill acquisition” in which the first stage of the journey was “The Plain of Suckitude”. Now I will...
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Of Mashups and Makers
I’m afraid I must interrupt my series of posts on “Being Different”, which begins here, for this important message. Yesterday I participated in a panel that I arranged, and that my employer (OCLC)...
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Being Different, Part 4: The Elevator of Enlightenment
In the previous post, I introduced the Plain of Suckitude, which is where we all suck at some new skill until, suddenly, we don’t. When you arrive at the “ah ha!” moment of a new skill, it is when...
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