10 Great Reasons to Attend ODCE 2008
Still deciding whether to attend the Ohio Digital Commons for Education 2008 Conference – The Convergence of Learning, Libraries and Technology? Here a...
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Pointless E-mail Disclaimers
I’ve been collecting disclaimers that appear on the bottom of e-mail messages in a draft post on DLTJ for about a year now – every time I’d get a new one wit...
Google Map of ALA Midwinter Hotels
Here is a map of official conference hotels and a link to download the KML file into Google Earth. ALA Midwinter 2008 Hotel KML Location file I'm somewhat di...
Wireless JPEG2000 Video and a Paper on How JPEG2000 Works
Two items of recent note in the JPEG2000 world. The first is the announcement of "the world’s first fully integrated wireless HDTV" that uses JPEG2000...
Meeting of the JPEG 2000 Interest Group on Jan 12th in Philadelphia
Download iCal file Saturday, January 12th from 1:30pm to 3:30pm — j2kIG Meeting at Chestnut room in the Radisson Plaza hotel The JPEG2000 Interest Gro...
Seeking Details on Websites for Digital Textbooks
This topic is a bit far from "library technology" but part of my day job at OhioLINK has been involved with research on digital textbooks. To that end, I've...
Feeling the Holiday Spirit? Check With Your Lawyers To See if it is Okay
You may have given away your right to feel the holiday spirit via some click-through license dreamed up by an over-exuberant lawyer. Don't believe me? Anyt...
NIH Mandatory Open Access Provision Becomes Law
President George W. Bush signs into law H.R. 2764, the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2008, also known at the omnibus, making appropriations for the Departm...
ODCE2008 Preliminary Program, Registration Now Available
The preliminary program [PDF] and conference registration for the 2008 Ohio Digital Commons for Education (ODCE) Conference is now available. As a member of...
Google Sets Its Sights On Hosting Knowledge
Google is typically known for its advertising, search engine, and news aggregation services. From Geoffrey Bilder on crosstech comes word of a new Google ef...
Advocates of the Balance Between the Rights of Intellectual Property Owners and the Rights of Information Users
The American Library Association Committee on Professional Ethics is proposing changes to the Code of Ethics. ((Do those outside the profession know that lib...
Getting On With ‘The Future of Descriptive Enrichment’
Roy Tennant is advocating the phrase "Descriptive Enrichment" over "Bibliographic Control" in response to draft report from the Library of Congress Working G...