Fighting through the decline

  • 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…

  • #SLAleads Tips (not just for first timers)

    SLA Leadership is next week in Memphis. I’m excited about it because Memphis is the home of Stax, Sun, and Goner records. I’m also excited because I get to hang out with the new crop of SLA leaders and get energized for the association. For newer SLA leaders (or not), here are just a few…

  • 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…