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Peter E. Murray

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

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  • The Hourglass of a National E-Book Program

    This weekend I was at the second "DPLAfest" for the Digital Public Library of America. For a while I was in the national e-book program track. Participants from public and academic libraries, from consortia, from publishers, and from authors discussed what a national ebok program for libraries would look like …

     Posted on  April 19, 2015
     and last updated April 19, 2015
     ·  9 minutes reading time
  • Unglue.It -- a service to crowdsource book licensing fees -- launches

    You could say "this is a service to watch" but that would be missing the point. Yesterday the 'Unglue.It' service launched as a way to crowdsource the funding of a fee to authors to release their own works under a Creative Commons license. [caption id="p3675-tweet" align="alignright" width …

     Posted on  May 18, 2012
     and last updated May 18, 2012
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • WorldCat May Become Available as Library Linked Data under ODC-BY

    On the second day of the OCLC Global Council meeting [agenda PDF] there was a presentation by Robin Murray (VP, OCLC Global Product Management) and Jim Michalko (VP, OCLC Research Library Partnership) called "Linked Open Data". The title of the presentation was an understatement because the real heart of the …

     Posted on  April 17, 2012
     and last updated April 18, 2012
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Legal Implications of SOPA/PROTECT-IP, Learning from Best Buy, Open Source in Medicine

    Welcome to the new year! Threads this week include a brief analysis of the legal problems in store if SOPA and PROTECT-IP become law, what an analysis of the problems with Best Buy might teach libraries, and why open source licensing of clinical tools is important.

    Feel free to send …

     Posted on  January 05, 2012
     and last updated January 05, 2012
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • 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 probably the first of many follow-ups in DLTJ as this case keeps taking interesting twists and turns. Also of note this week is …

     Posted on  March 24, 2011
     and last updated January 15, 2018
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: HarperCollins Ebook Terms, Internet Archive Ebook Sharing, Future of Collections

    It is an all e-books edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads this week. The biggest news was the announcement of the policy change by HarperCollins for ebooks distributed through OverDrive. Beyond that, though, was an announcement of a new sharing model and program through the Internet Archive. Lastly is a slidecast …

     Posted on  March 02, 2011
     and last updated March 03, 2011
     ·  8 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: OCLC Moves to Dismiss SkyOCLC, UCLA Sued For Streaming, Paving Cow Paths, Origins of #

    This week's Thursday Threads highlights includes two legal cases that bear watching. The first is the case of SkyRiver/Innovative Interfaces versus OCLC (covered on DLTJ previously); now that the case has been moved to OCLC's home court (the federal district court located in Columbus, OH), it is asking for …

     Posted on  December 16, 2010
     and last updated December 16, 2010
     ·  8 minutes reading time
  • Notes from the OCLC Record Use Policy Council discussion

    On Saturday morning of ALA Midwinter 2010, Dr. Jennifer Younger moderated a session on the progress of the OCLC Record Use Policy Council. The meeting started with an introduction to the reasons behind the creation of the Record Use Council, the charge of the Council from the board of trustees …

     Posted on  January 18, 2010
     and last updated January 18, 2010
     ·  8 minutes reading time
  • EBSCO in Cahoots With Harvard Business Press

    A controversy is starting to pick up in the business librarian community -- primarily in the U.K. it would seem -- regarding the licensing demands of Harvard Business Press (HBP) for the inclusion of Harvard Business Review articles in EBSCOhost. HBP content in EBSCOhost carries a publisher-specific rider that says use …

     Posted on  June 28, 2009
     and last updated June 28, 2009
     ·  10 minutes reading time