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"“Caught My Eye” by Katina"
Anyone interested in copyright issues will welcome the two excellent resources highlighted in ARL’s most recent Weekly Update. Noted copyright attorney Jonathan Band’s “A New Day for Website Archiving 2.0,” is an updated analysis focusing on “legal arguments available to support website archiving by research libraries.” Since 2006, Band has argued that website [...]
Read More... →We just ran across this article and wanted to share it with our reference colleagues (and others). Written by Jake Carlson, Data Services Specialist at Purdue, Demystifying the Data Interview: Developing a Foundation for Reference Librarians to Talk with Researchers about their Data talks about a project Purdue Libraries have been involved with that [...]
Read More... →Was just reading about the Phablet – a phone with a screen big enough to be used as a tablet. Samsung is coming out with this Android-powered smartphone with other extra features. Will this be the next big device? Check out this article from Techworld.com to get all the details: “The era of the [...]
Read More... →What’s Coming In 2012: Book Publishing
Gazing into her crystal ball, Laura Hazard Owen makes some predictions for the coming year in this post from paidContent.org.
As Amazon deepens it commitment to publishing its own titles, Laura says it will need to deal with its “bookstore distribution problem.” She predicts Amazon will strike [...]
Read More... →The Huffington Post has an excellent spread on libraries that has links to numerous articles including discussions of things like library budget cuts, libraries being more than books, the need for library advocacy, and critical library concerns in places like New York, [...]
Read More... →For Their Children, Many E-Book Fans Insist on Paper
Surprisingly, it seems that the ebook wave is not engulfing kids and toddlers. In fact, even parents who prefer their books online want their children’s first reading experience to be in print. “They want their children to be surrounded by print books, to experience turning [...]
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