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...
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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
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Slidecast of David Lewis’ “Collections Futures” Talk
At the 2010 Annual RLG Partnership Meeting, David Lewis (Dean of the IUPUI University Library) gave a talk entitled "Collections Futures". I've followed Dav...
Thursday Threads: Free Music Scores, Hiring for Attitude, National Broadband Map
[caption id="attachment_2673" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Hickory, with true-to-life parting attitude (left) and Mittens"][/caption] This week's T...
My O’Reilly Wish List
O'Reilly Media -- my favorite technology publisher -- is offering a contest in which they are giving away $500 worth of books from their catalog. To enter, ...
Thursday Threads: Estimating and Understanding Big Data, Key Loggers Steal Patron Keystrokes
Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads: by E-mail by RSS Delivered by FeedBurner Two entries on big data lead this week's edition of DLTJ Thursday Thre...
IPv4 Address Space Disappearing, Here Comes IPv6
Last week in DLTJ Thursday Threads I posted an entry about running out of IP addresses. Since I posted that, I've run across a couple of other stories and w...