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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • Thursday Threads: Kindle Singles and Kindle Accessibility, Sped-up Discourse, ISBN Troubles

    This week Amazon takes center stage of DLTJ Thursday Threads with a report of their new Kindle Singles program for medium-form digital content and a screen-reader-aware version of the Kindle reader application for PCs. After that is a look at how scholarly discourse is changing -- radically! -- with the availability and …

     Posted on  January 27, 2011
     and last updated January 27, 2011
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Federal Textbook Disclosure Rules Now Law

    The fact that the Higher Education Opportunity Act (Public Law 110-315) -- otherwise known as HEOA -- was signed into law last year is probably not big news to anyone. One of the parts of the bill that I have been following and commented on here in DLTJ is the textbook disclosure …

     Posted on  August 31, 2009
     and last updated August 31, 2009
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • Textbook Disclosure Rules in U.S. House Bill

    The Chronicle of Higher Education had an article today [subscription required] about legislation pending on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives that in part includes rules for disclosure of textbook selection and pricing. The lever is the reauthorization of the Higher Education Act, a major law that …

     Posted on  January 31, 2008
     and last updated February 01, 2008
     ·  13 minutes reading time
  • "Identifiers Roundup" — LITA Standards Interest Group in conjunction with NISO

    This is a report of the presentations from the LITA Standards Interest Group at the ALA Annual Conference, 24-Jul-2006, in New Orleans. Pat Stevens, interim director of NISO, moderated the panel discussion.

    ISSN Regina Reynolds, Library of Congress (U.S. ISSN Center)

    Structure

    There are 80 ISSN centers worldwide with …

     Posted on  June 24, 2006
     and last updated June 25, 2006
     ·  8 minutes reading time