Two Personal Repository Services
This year has seen the release of two personal repository services: http://PublicationsList.org/ and the U.K. Depot. These two services have an admittedly ...
Recent posts
“iTunes U” for Libraries?
A recent posting in the Chronicle of Higher Education "Wired Campus" section describes the new iTunes U portal, "a spot on the site that will collect college...
Information Explorers versus Editors
A post by Bill Harris at "Dubious Quality" with the title Information got caught up in my Technorati filter for disruptive change in libraries. Geoff Engels...
Planning a digital preservation assessment using TRAC:CC and DRAMBORA
OhioLINK is engaged in building a "trusted digital repository" on behalf of its membership. As we build it, we want to have an understanding of what "truste...
Data Visualization: Depth, Breadth, and Malleable
In case you haven't run across Gapminder.org yet, I encourage you to carve out about 45 minutes of a day to do so. Even before going to the URL above, your ...
How US Airways Became My Airline-of-Last-Resort (And Why You Should Never Fly With Them, Too)
I will never fly U.S. Airways again, if I have a choice. A competing airline's ticket is going to have to be substantially more expensive for me to even con...
Demonstrating the Mouse’s Absurd Copyright Practices by Using the Mouse’s Work
Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University demonstrates principles of fair use to give an overview of U.S. copyright principles in A Fair(y) Use Tale -- a 1...
Seeking Information about Regional Digitization Centers
I'm looking for information about the formation and management of regional digitization centers for one of the OhioLINK strategic task forces. For our purpo...
NDIIP Update: Requests for Funding and Other Activities
Activity still continues on the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIP). There were two stories in Washington DC newspa...
Creating Participatory Digital Libraries
"Participatory Digital Libraries" is the name of a talk Paul Jones, Director of ibiblio.org, gave this morning at OCLC's Kilgour Auditorium. Known as "The P...
Where Do I Fit? Pew Thinks I’m a “Connector”
So here is my role on the internet — a Connector: "Connectors combine a sense that information technology is good for social purposes with a clear rec...
HitchHikr Page for ALA 2007 Annual Conference
Following in the footsteps of last year's annual conference and the midwinter meeting earlier this year, there is now a conference tracking page on the Hitch...