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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
  • Thursday Threads: Open Source Advocates Twitch at Blackboard's Strategy and Effect of Copyright/DRM on Access

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    Thursday Threads has been a back-burner activity for quite a while now. Blame it on too many interesting things happening at home and at work (to say nothing of the early arrival of spring weather). This week will be …

     Posted on  April 05, 2012
     and last updated January 15, 2018
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Free Music Scores, Hiring for Attitude, National Broadband Map

    Hickory, with true-to-life parting attitude (left) and Mittens
    This week's Thursday Threads is delayed, but for good reason. If you will indulge me with a personal note, this week saw the passing of our 20-year-old cat, Hickory, and the addition of a 6-month-old kitten, Mittens, to our family. Needless to …

     Posted on  February 24, 2011
     and last updated February 25, 2011
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Thursday Threads: Ebooks in Libraries, Prognostications for the Year, Open Source Adoption, Public Domain Day

    The turn of the year brings commentary on the past 12 months and thoughts on the future. This edition of DLTJ Thursday Threads looks at the relationship between libraries and electronic books with an offer by Sony to explain e-reader hardware to libraries and an opinion piece that libraries need …

     Posted on  January 06, 2011
     and last updated January 06, 2011
     ·  10 minutes reading time