Thursday Threads: Advertising and Privacy, Giving Away Linux, A View of the Future
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Local and Unique and Digital: A Evolving Trend for Libraries and Cultural Heritage Institutions
These are slides and audio from presentation given at the LOUIS Users Group meeting, on October 4, 2013, in Baton Rouge, LA. The description of the talk was...
Thursday Threads: Disruptive Innovation and the Amazon Kindle Fire
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Thursday Threads: Authors Guild Sues Hathi Trust, Libraries Learn from Blockbuster, Publisher’s View of Self-Publishing
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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: Disruption in Library Acquisitions, Publishing, and Remedial Education plus Checking Assumptions of Cloud Computing and a National Digital Library
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 i...
SkyRiver - a(nother) Bibliographic Utility
North America is gaining its third ((or fourth? Does Open Library count as a bibliographic utility?)) major bibliographic record utility server this month wi...
New Blog for Ebooks in Libraries: “No Shelf Required”
Sue Polanka, head of reference and instruction at the main library of Wright State University, sent a message to the OhioLINK membership today about a new bl...
The Cost of a Phone Call Drops to Near Zero
The title of this post is true, under certain circumstances. Last week's e-mail brought word from Michael Robertson of Backdoor Dialing - Free Calling to Mi...
Automating Withdrawn Actions: Maximixing the Long Tail of Acquisitions
Libraries place a good deal of emphasis on collection development policies -- a written statement of a library's intentions for building its collection. It ...
Out of Print Books Get New Life via Amazon and Participating Libraries
Why settle for mere digital copies of books (a la the Google Book Search project and the Open Content Alliance) when you can have an edition printed, bound a...
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...
Pocket-sized Graph of the Theory of Disruptive Innovation
I really like Christensen's Theory of Disruptive Innovation (as he proposed in his book The Innovator's Dilemma). It succinctly describes the challenges, if...
Google News Archive Search — Where Are the Links to Content from Libraries?
Extra! Extra! Read All About It! "Explore History as it Happened: Google News Now Has Archive Search" Extra! Extra! </p> In my imagination I can ...
Just In Time Acquisitions versus Just In Case Acquisitions
What of a service existed where the patrons selected an item they needed out of our library catalog and that item was delivered to the patron even when the l...
Can Google be Out-Googled?
I have been heard to remark to other librarians on occasion a comment along the lines of "Don't fear Google; Don't Chase Google; Let's Out-Google Google!" ...
Open Source Software: Should You Bet Your Career On It?
At any point in time, there is a college IT director trying to determine whether to upgrade, migrate away from, or stay the course with some software package...
Appreciating our Heritage while Embracing a Future
Tom Wilson, LITA past president and all-around insightful LITA Top Technology Trendster, posted a commentary to the "Where have all the programmers gone?" p...