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"Charleston 2012: The Blog"
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And so another Charleston Conference has drawn to a close. It was highly successful from start to finish. A vote of thanks goes to Katina Strauch, the organizers, sponsors, exhibitors at the Vendor Showcase, and [...]
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The final session, called “Hyde Park Corer” took the form of a debate on the statement: “The Traditional Research Library is Dead”. Oxford Union-style rules were followed:
The audience was asked to vote “yes” or [...]
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This popular session, now in its 3rd year, reviews recent legal cases impacting libraries.
Library and Archive Users Rights: An International Treaty on Copyright Exceptions and Limitations for Libraries and Archives
Winston Tabb, [...]
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This panel conducted an informal conversation (edited transcript below) addressing the questions of whether searchers are really finding what they are looking for and what new technologies are helping them.
How does your organization think [...]
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Ann Okerson presented a report on the SCOAP3 project and its current activities.
SCOAP3 is the first project to convert all of the peer-reviewed journals of a discipline to open [...]
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Charles Watkinson from Purdue University, moderator, introduced this session by noting that Open Access (OA) books are the next frontier in publishing. How different are they from journals? We need to develop our positions, but [...]
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