Category: Trends

  • SOPA and the Research Works Act: Evil master plan or do publishers think so little of us?

    This week there’s been some interesting and disgusting things going on within scholarly publishing. Most of the internet is up at arms about SOPA, the ludicrous Stop Online Piracy Act. Earlier this week I stumbled across an interesting blog post Why The Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the Result is SOPA. I think the same…

  • Fetishizing the container obscures the content, obviously.

    vinyl library, originally uploaded by Luke Pineda. Last night on LibPunk Radio we were talking about that #hcod drama. You know, the Harper Collins-Over Drive debacle. Lots of stuff has been written and said about the whole affair and I’m not really going there. The thing I’m focused on is the “content vs. container” issue…

  • Working online – Library school, committee work, work work, it’s all the same.

    Today, Drexel (my alma mater), has an interesting post on their einsights blog, where they discuss different issues surrounding online/distance education. Today, they tackle common mistakes online students make and how to avoid them. The mistakes are: Assuming online is easy Poor time management Communication breakdown Not utilizing available resources Not staying connected Taking on…

  • CDs and DVDs – can’t live with ’em, can’t live without ’em.

    Microwaving a CD, originally uploaded by AlpinePhotographer. I’m supposed to be getting ready for the TRB Annual Meeting, but I’ve been bogged down with pulling PDFs of other conference proceedings off of discs. It’s a weird skill to have – figuring out how to bypass the auto-run software, locate the files, and locate the single…

  • Data.Gov — transparency overload, PR move, tool.

    FBI DATA REELS (UN-Classified) and unreadable to me!, originally uploaded by spike55151. The SLA Gov Info division posted this morning a link to a Harvard Business School case study, Data.Gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation. (There’s a free copy of the study for government employees linked on the DGI blog.) It’s a good read…