March 2009
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Library Services
The annoying side of copyright or why I’m annoyed with Harvard Business School.
03.30.09 | Permalink | 2 CommentsPhoto source. For years I couldn’t name anything more obnoxious than the crazy frog, but I stand corrected. I’ve long thought that the DMCA was ridiculous, mostly for the broadcast implications, and that DRM was just a band-aid that irritates people and doesn’t actually prevent piracy. Well, today a student came into our library to [...]
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I’m a Shover and Maker!
Oh my! I’ve been named one of LSW’s Shovers and Makers for 2009! You can read about it here. If you want to be an S&Mer too, get in the action here. I’m so misty eyed my mascara is running. Oh well, back to indexing transportation reports.
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Library Services
Oh, the many uses of a library!
03.25.09 | Permalink | 3 CommentsDavid Lee King, one of the well established voices of “Library 2.0″, recently blogged Can a Library Be Your Office?, which looks at how libraries can lure business people and freelancers out of bookstores and coffee shops and into the library to work. This is all in response to Chris Brogan’s post about why bookstores [...]
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Library Services
British Library “loses” 9,000 books, really?
Photo source. Today the Guardian reported about the British Library misplacing/losing 9,000 books: More than 9,000 books are missing from the British Library, including Renaissance treatises on theology and alchemy, a medieval text on astronomy, first editions of 19th- and 20th-century novels, and a luxury edition of Mein Kampf produced in 1939 to celebrate Hitler’s [...]
