Archive for August, 2007
More on Online Court Rulings
August 20th, 2007O’Reilly has more on this incredible story.
Readers Going Green
August 20th, 2007Eco-Libris - “Books are everywhere, just look around: on bookshelves at home, in college students’ backpacks, in the mail from the book club or in that pile in your room right now. For some people they’re for education, for others they’re an entertaining escapade and for some, reading is really a passion. Eco-Libris is for [...]
Lotsa Money
August 20th, 2007NYT - “A booming real estate market, combined with a 120-year-old state law that allocates a fixed portion of local taxes to libraries, has created a surplus that has reached into the millions of dollars for some libraries in towns on the Jersey Shore.”
Teen Health Database
August 20th, 2007PRnewswire - “Rosen Publishing is pleased to announce the launch of its Teen Health & Wellness electronic resource at two of the leading U.S. urban public libraries — The New York Public Library and Phoenix Public Library. Teen Health & Wellness is Rosen’s first online database, and has been garnering outstanding reviews and awards since [...]
More Rowling - Ack!
August 19th, 2007Booklist - “Never one to rest on her considerable laurels, J.K. Rowling is reportedly haunting the coffee shops of Scotland and working on a post-Harry Potter mystery novel.”
More on Online Court Rulings
August 19th, 2007NYT - “The domination of two legal research services over the publication of federal and state court decisions is being challenged by an Internet gadfly who has embarked on an ambitious project to make more than 10 million pages of case law available free online.”
The world’s strangest laws
August 18th, 2007Hilarious and scary.
Too many to choose from, but I like this one:
“In Vermont, women must obtain written permission from their husbands to wear false teeth.” (via)
News Footage and Copyright
August 18th, 2007San Francisco Chronicle - “The filmmakers say they are protected under the “fair use” provision of federal copyright law, a measure that is being tested in ways unimagined when it was codified 30 years ago.” (via)
Some SC Briefs to be Available Soon on SC Site.
August 18th, 2007How Appealing - “[T]he memorandum suggests that the Court will begin making electronically-filed briefs available for access over the Court’s own web site.”
Freedom To Read
August 18th, 2007AP - “A committee in northern Idaho that reviews school library books will recommend that high school students be allowed to check out two novels without first receiving permission from parents, some of whom find the books offensive.”
In the Age of Digital Libraries
August 18th, 2007Welcome to the Future - “After the last book was sealed into a storage vacuum, the last librarians on earth were given the honorable task of guarding mankind’s most delicate treasures. Thankfully we of the future had been training our librarians in combat techniques as cataloging books became much more difficult.”
Click through to see the [...]
EasyCropper
August 17th, 2007“EasyCropper is a simple way for you to crop any image for use on the web. It’s a free tool, so use it at your own risk. Then again, you’re just cropping images so what’s the worst that could happen?” (via)
See Also… Turns Two
August 17th, 2007Congrats Steve.
Teens, Libraries and Web 2.0
August 17th, 2007Pew - “This presentation examines technology use by young patrons and suggests how the behavior and expectations of young internet users might shape the libraries of the future. Special attention is paid to the way teenagers have embraced social media tools, and the rate of adult adoption of various iconic “Web 2.0″ applications is also [...]
Coverboom
August 17th, 2007Where they “judge books by their covers” (via)
What’s That Line?
August 17th, 2007ZDNet - “Often the Web sites we end up on have misspellings or incomplete and inaccurate lyrics, not to mention annoying pop-up and flashing ads. But there’s another problem with the sites–many of them are violating copyright by republishing the lyrics without permission. And they are making money from the Google text ads that appear [...]
Dewey & Main
August 17th, 2007New (to me) Librar* Blog - “Embracing the L words: library and local. This blog explores the relationship between the two.The Internet is localizing and becoming more aware of places (neighborhoods, communities, towns, cities and so on). In fact, to mis-quote a local business owner of some renown, local may be as red hot as [...]
Not Your Blog
August 17th, 2007Dave Winer - “I decide what belongs on this blog”
Good for you Dave.
I’ve been involved a bunch of ethical decisions lately. The one thing I’ve learned is, don’t let anyone define what your ethical lines should be.
“Approved Vendors”
August 17th, 2007Seattle Weekly - “Thanks to a controversial “approved vendor system,” state prisons are slowing the flow of books behind bars.”
More here.
Share Your Shared Items
August 17th, 2007I’m looking for some good Google Reader shared items feeds. If you use this feature in Google Reader and think that I should subscribe to it, send me a note at stevenmcohen [at] gmail [dot] com.
BTW, mine is here.
Another Reason to Switch to Google Reader
August 17th, 2007Matt Mullenweg - “it feels better to be on a platform that whether real or perceived feels like it has real momentum.”
Save Our Books
August 17th, 2007Chemistry World - “Three out of every four books in Europe’s libraries are printed on acidic paper that isn’t expected to last another century.”
Indiana University Libraries and ChaCha
August 16th, 2007Library Journal - “Under the agreement, the IU/ChaCha partnership will incorporate the “collective knowledge and experience of the university’s library and information technology staff” into ChaCha’s new search engine architecture, which seeks to combine “machine-based search” with “skilled human guides.”
LOC Ask A Librarian Reviewed
August 16th, 2007AppScout - “Reference librarians are hard to come by, and their time is even more valuable, as anyone who’s ever written a thesis knows. Opening the door to the nation’s greatest library via the Web is a great idea.”
Abram on PDFs
August 16th, 2007Stephen Abram - “I actually hate PDF’s.”
Blogs and Law School Rankings
August 16th, 2007Conglomerate - “[T]he main thrust of the article is that blogs “represent a cost effective mechanism for improving a law school’s reputational rankings and, perforce, its overall rankings in the infamous US News and World Report.” (via)
Librarians After Dark
August 16th, 2007
Librarians After Dark
Originally uploaded by librarian type
WPA Book Week Poster
August 16th, 2007
WPA Book Week Poster
Originally uploaded by Marxchivist
Be Very Careful
August 16th, 2007InfoWorld - “Analyst firm Knowledge Networks has agreed to pay $300,000 to settle a complaint that it distributed news articles to its employees without permission of the copyright owners, a trade group announced Thursday.” (via)
I’ve been doing a lot of educating on this issue for the past few weeks. Most don’t even realize that [...]
And I Thought Comments Were Dead
August 16th, 2007Read/Write/Web - “Fav.or.it is a full-featured browser-based RSS Reader, similar to Google Reader. But the main highlight of the service will be integrated commenting, or “full cycle feed reading” as the company refers to it.”
Whoa…
On second thought, comments are still dead.