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  • Records, mp3s, and preservation (and copyright)

    records, a photo by Jack Emerson Garland on Flickr. This weekend, while organizing my records and putting them into Discogs, I had an epiphany — “Digital piracy can be a form of preservation. The ultimate LOCKSS.” The distribution isn’t organized, but it definitely helps preserve the “long tail”. Once something is on the internet, it’s…

  • When a college takes the music library of a college radio station.

    Music Library., a photo by Pitseleh Pitseleh on Flickr. Earlier this week @LibrarySherpa sent me this article about UT Austin accepting and processing the KUT music library. Thanks to its purchase of the entire physical library of the university’s public-radio station, KUT, the university’s Fine Arts Library has 60,000 CDs and 4,000 LPs to process…

  • DIY Cohort: Professional networking online to keep you sane.

    First, watch the full 58 minutes of this Stax Volt Revue from 1967. Then read this post. Today I stumbled across this blog post from Inky Reviews about building her own community on Twitter while getting her MLIS online. She used it to build her community and engage with the profession in lieu of face…

  • How do you define access in scholarly publishing?

    academic journals, a photo by davidsilver on Flickr. I’m taking this time before the semester and the TRB Annual Meeting and SLA Leadership to whip some data into shape. I’m analyzing the citations from our PhD students’ dissertations from the past 5 years. I hope to learn something about our collection development (is it on…

  • I can’t hear you, you’re not prestigious enough: Thoughts on Open Access and respected, white men.

    1950s Ted in office, a photo by BigJohnWingMan on Flickr. This post isn’t so much about Open Access (OA) so much as it is about people talking about Open Access. The OA movement has gained traction recently. The OSTP Memo has definitely helped raise awareness in some circles and given it weight. People are starting…