We're Disrupted, We're Librarians, and We're Not Going to Take It Anymore
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If it is Thursday it must mean it is time for another in this series of Thursday Threads posts. This week there are an abundance of things that could fall into the category of “disruptive innovation” in libraries and higher education. If you find these interesting, you might want to subscribe to my FriendFeed stream where these topics and more are posted and discussed throughout the week.
This is a preview of Thursday Threads: Disruption in Library Acquisitions, Publishing, and Remedial Education plus Checking Assumptions of Cloud Computing and a National Digital Library. Read the full post (807 words, 3:14 minutes estimated reading time)
This is the second week of this Thursday Threads experiment and already we have a bonus edition. Two other items crossed my browser today that were just too good to pass up: how statistical techniques are improving the aggregation of political polling and a visual representation of lifespan versus income over time.
This is a preview of Thursday Threads Bonus: Statistics (Election Polls) and Statistics (World Stats). Read the full post (502 words, 2:00 minutes estimated reading time)
Week #2 of this new project to highlight interesting tidbits from the previous seven days. Well, things that were interesting to me that I hope will be interesting to DLTJ readers. Time will tell.
This is a preview of Thursday Threads: Technical Debt, QR Codes in National Parks, WebP Image Format, and SSL Cautions. Read the full post (989 words, 1 image, 3:57 minutes estimated reading time)
One of the baffling elements I’ve found in discussions of the history of OCLC is that of its tax exempt status under Ohio law. The latest example of this comes from documents filed in the SkyRiver/Innovative-vs.-OCLC case that make disparaging remarks about how OCLC got its state tax-advantaged status. (The text of the remarks in those documents are included below.) I was curious about this a while back and so did some research on the topic. I had set it aside and forgotten about it until this latest lawsuit brought it up again. So, to set the record straight, here is at least one version — hopefully written from a neutral perspective — of what happened nearly three decades ago.
This is a preview of A History of the OCLC Tax-Exemption Status. Read the full post (3747 words, 14:59 minutes estimated reading time)
