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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: 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: Open Publishing Alternatives, Open Bibliographic Data, Earn an MBA in Facebook, Unconference Planning

    The highlights of the past week are around publishing -- first with a model proposed by Eric Hellman in which consumers can pool enough money to pay publishers to "set a book free" under a Creative Commons license, then with an announcement by the University of Pittsburgh offering free hosting of …

     Posted on  December 02, 2010
     and last updated December 03, 2010
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Amazon Catalog Updates

    Did you know that Amazon offers a facility to make corrections to its catalog? Somewhere in the past few months someone mentioned this to me and I tried it out. (Unfortunately, it has been long enough now that I've forgotten who told me; if you are the one, please fess …

     Posted on  May 12, 2010
     and last updated May 13, 2010
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Mashups of Bibliographic Data: A Report of the ALCTS Midwinter Forum

    This year the ALCTS Forum at ALA Midwinter brought together three perspectives on massaging bibliographic data of various sorts in ways that use MARC, but where MARC is not the end goal. What do you get when you swirl MARC, ONIX, and various other formats of metadata in a big …

     Posted on  January 27, 2010
     and last updated January 27, 2010
     ·  16 minutes reading time
  • Further Consideration of OCLC Records Use Policy

    At ALA Midwinter, ALCTS sponsored a panel discussion about sharing library-created data inside and outside the library community, with a particular focus on cataloging data. I was honored to be ask to speak on the topic from the perspective of a consortial office. This is the second and final post …

     Posted on  January 28, 2009
     and last updated January 29, 2009
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Consideration of OCLC Records Use Policy

    At ALA Midwinter, ALCTS sponsored a panel discussion about sharing library-created data inside and outside the library community, with a particular focus on cataloging data. I was honored to be ask to speak on the topic from the perspective of a consortial office. This is the first in a series …

     Posted on  January 27, 2009
     and last updated January 28, 2009
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Open Library Demonstration Screencast

    Earlier this week, Aaron Swartz of the Internet Archive announced the demonstration website of the Open Library project, a new kind of book catalog that brings together traditional publisher and library bibliographic data in an interface with the user-contributed paradigm of Wikipedia. Okay, I'll pause for a moment while you …

     Posted on  July 20, 2007
     and last updated July 20, 2007
     ·  11 minutes reading time