With the web, people are reading more than ever before you could say. But what are we reading? Likely it’s all short form: blog posts, tweets, status updates. They’re words, but it’s not exactly literature.
Read more of "Library Lab/The Podcast 007: The Velocity of Books"Michael S. Hart
First, an email from Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive about Michael S. Hart
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We’ve had the pleasure of working with Dan Brickley this summer on a spectacularly difficult and interesting project, trying to figure out how to associate content from the Web with the sorts of categories used by libraries. In this podcast, Dan reflects on some of the general issues facing librarians trying to make Web-based distributed collections navigable, and how much hope we should have for a future of Linked Data. (I apologize for the sound quality. I recorded it from Skype, and without the expert help of the magnificent Dan Jones, the usual producer of our podcasts.)
Library Lab/The Podcast 006: From Brick and Mortar to 1s and 0s
Some might assume that libraries and museums have outlived their purpose. When every book and archive can be recreated and reinterpreted digitally to create an incredible user experience, how is the physical and human infrastructure of the institution still necessary?
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If you’ve worked in technology at all you probably recognize the name “O’Reilly”—it has become practically synonymous with “tech help.” For anyone who has tried to code a line of html, or figure out what the heck that icon on the iPhone screen is, O’Reilly Media has produced a manual to explain it.
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The Harvard Library Lab, which issues grants for library innovation at the University, is holding a forum in which all the projects get 5 mins to introduce themselves. (The names prefacing these blurbs are of the presenters, who are not always the project leads or developers.)
Read more of "LibLabapalooza"Podcasts now at iTunes
Thanks to the tireless efforts of Dan Jones, the series producer, the Library Innovation Lab podcast series is now available at iTunes.
Read more of "Podcasts now at iTunes"Why don’t more academics do Open Access publishing?
A report on a survey of 350 chemists and 350 economists in UK universities leads to the following conclusion about open access publishing:
Read more of "Why don't more academics do Open Access publishing?"Library Lab/The Podcast 004: We Read in Public
Guarding patron privacy is kind of the default in the library business. When it comes to knowing who checked out what and when libraries usually prefer to flush the cache—except when it comes to collecting fines!
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It starts with an idea: You’re a scholar and you use the web to search for sources. How can you collect your sources and their metadata without having to copy, paste, reformat? Or spend your starving researcher’s budget on some proprietary software?
That’s only the beginning for Zotero, a free, open-source plug-in for web browsers developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at George Mason University.
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