Thursday Threads: Teaching Search, OCLC Research Library Partnership, Shelvar App
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Iron Mountain to Close its Virtual File Store Service
About two years ago I wrote a blog post wondering if we could outsource the preservation of digital bits. What prompted that blog post was an announcement f...
Thursday Threads: HarperCollins/OverDrive (still), Wikimedia Survey, Microsoft Academic Search
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> We can't leave the hot topic of ebook...
Thursday Threads: HarperCollins, Google Book Search Settlement, DPLA, Juggling Robots
It is another e-books issue of DLTJ Thursday Threads with updates on three significant efforts: HarperCollins, Google Book Search Settlement, Digital Public...
Code4Lib Virtual Lightning Talks – First round, April 4th 2011
One of the highlights of the Code4Lib annual meeting is the “lightning talk” rounds. A lightning talk is a fast-paced 5 minute talk on a topic of...
Thursday Threads: Google Books Settlement, Cornell on NDAs, Hans Rosling on Literacy
This week's big news is hard to miss -- we have a decision by the judge evaluating the settlement agreement in the Google Book Search lawsuit. This is proba...
Google Book Search Settlement Rejected
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Real Life Example of Creative Commons License Applied to MARC Records
Eric Morgan posted a message to the Next Generation Catalog for Libraries mailing list this morning that points to a announcement by the University of Florid...
Thursday Threads: Open Source in Health Care, The Big Deal, Archives of Web Pages
We’re taking a break this week from the HarperCollins e-book story; although the commentary continues from librarians (and a few authors), there hasn’t been ...
Thursday Threads: HarperCollins (again), Digital Public Library of America, Kindle Millionaires
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> Last week's DLTJ Thursday Threads theme of eboo...
The Challenges and Rewards of Open Source
Below is the text of an article I wrote for the LYRASIS member newsletter in which I talk about how a community of users of open source software is as import...
Thursday Threads: HarperCollins Ebook Terms, Internet Archive Ebook Sharing, Future of Collections
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:</p> by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner </form> </div> It is an all e-books edition of DLTJ ...