November 2, 2009 – 11:02 am
Illicit file sharing isn’t just for kids these days. Once mainly used for downloading pirated music, sites have sprung up on the Internet that allow free swapping of academic journals
See The Latest File-Sharing Piracy: Academic Journals
October 30, 2009 – 10:48 am
Wikipedia says:
“Mischief night or mischievous night is a tradition in Canada and the United States; a night when the custom is for preteens and teenagers to take a degree of license to play pranks and do mischief to their neighbors. The most common date for mischief night is October 30, the day before Halloween.”
Other names:
Cabbage [...]
October 29, 2009 – 5:29 pm
From the Chronicle’s Wired Campus:
“By opening the largest online rental service for scientific, technical, and research journals, the company Deep Dyve is hoping to do for academic publications what Netflix has done for movies: make them easily accessible and inexpensive for everyone.” http://chronicle.com/blogPost/The-Netflix-of-Academic/8648/?sid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en
October 9, 2009 – 11:12 am
The 2009 Horizon Report lists “Geo-Everything” among recent trends in the category “Time-to-Adoption Horizon: Two to Three Years.”
In a recent brainstorming session based on some of the Horizons technology trends, the Digital Services Team considered how the libraries might provide geolocation services using mashups, web pages, or software, for instance GPS directions/location or [...]
October 9, 2009 – 10:52 am
Sergey Brin puts his spin on GoogleBooks in an op-ed in today’s New York Times:
“But the vast majority of books ever written are not accessible to anyone except the most tenacious researchers at premier academic libraries. Books written after 1923 quickly disappear into a literary black hole. With rare exceptions, one can buy them only [...]
October 9, 2009 – 9:38 am
List is here from the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies
This list has been compiled from the Top 10 Tool Contributions of 202 Learning Professionals.
October 1, 2009 – 5:06 pm
Catalogs are the problem!
Librarians are the problem!
Students are the problem!
A Chronicle article on trends in library catalog software has touched off an online reader debate about who’s to blame for patrons’ search frustrations and how to fix the situation.
Here’s the second Chronicle article with the debate…
October 1, 2009 – 11:39 am
Of all the current assaults on our noble republic, perhaps none is more dangerous than the public option – specifically, the public library option.
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October 1, 2009 – 10:20 am
Denver Bibliophile’s Bedbugs Take a Bite Out of ILL Loans
Denver Public Library has destroyed 31 books and fumigated four areas of
its central library after a bedbug infestation caused, ironically, by a
patron dedicated to preserving classic literature.
The contaminated books, which are rare works that were borrowed from DPL
through interlibrary loan, had been checked out by Roger [...]
September 23, 2009 – 4:04 pm
From the Chronicle,a short article about Peter Schilling (head of IT at Amherst)’s annual index of IT changes at Amherst;
Some highlights:
*Number of employees who have registered personal iPhones or iPod Touches on the College’s network: 88.
*Student who have done so: 294.
*Subscribers to the Amherst College YouTube channel: 86 (Sept. 09).
*Followers of the Amherst [...]
