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  • SLA: Speak up, I can’t hear you.

    flickr photo shared by Ape Lad under a Creative Commons ( BY-NC-ND ) license Update: On 21 May, 2015 SLA signed on to the COAR statement. Way to go, SLA! This morning an announcement hit my inbox from ARL about a number of library groups denouncing Elsevier’s new sharing and hosting policy.  (I wrote about it…

  • Need a reality check? On peer-review and domain knowledge

    Entering the Subway, a photo by rosemarie_mckeon on Flickr. Last week I attended IDCC14 in San Francisco, where I was immersed in digital curation. Naturally, things like peer-review and domain knowledge/expertise were on my mind, as things to consider with research (data) publishing. Then I saw this story about a Twitter data scientist “hacking” BART.…

  • 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…