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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.Libology Blog
Established July 2006
ISSN: 1946-1852
by Rick Mason
Monthly Archives: March 2007
Copyright Chaos
Lawrence Lessig has an Op-Ed in today’s New York Times called “Make Way for Copyright Chaos“, which discusses a shift towards the courts when interpreting copyright law. from ©ollectanea
Posted in Copyright, Government, News, Politics
Tagged copyright law, Lawrence Lessig, New York Times
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Support Staff Salaries
Here is some information on the salaries of non-MLS positions within libraries: Salaries of Staff Working in Archives (pdf) Non-MLS Salaries in Public Libraries (pdf) Note that the second link focuses on how the non-MLS salaries are catching up to … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries
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Library Cryptography
Kind of an interesting news story that, in the end, leads to a library-related conclusion. James Randi, the well-known challenger of psychics, has an item placed in a locker, and has offered a million dollars to the person who can … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Libraries, News
Tagged Acquisitions Librarian, Cryptography, James Randi, Mary Ann, Matt Blaze, USD
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Copyright Resources on the Web
Copyright Resources on the Web is an excellent and very comprehensive collection of links to, whaddayaknow, copyright resources on the web. from ResourceShelf
Posted in Copyright, Education, Libraries, Open Access, Training, Tutorials
Tagged Web
Copyright Resources, Web
Copyright Resources
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Libraries, Religion, and the Supremes???
The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has declined to revisit the question of church services in library meeting rooms (see my earlier post here), and the case is being appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court. Will it … Continue reading
Posted in Libraries, News
Tagged church services, U.S. Supreme Court, US Court of Appeals
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The Machine is Using Us (final version)
When the draft version of this video was posted 6 weeks ago, it didn’t quite seem “library” enough at the time. Live and learn… the more I think about it, the more relevant it seems. The final version of Web … Continue reading
FreeBase
Freebase is (or will be, if you are like me and waiting for an invite) an online behemoth of a database. Imagine taking Wikipedia and having users create links to related information, so that you can tap into the information … Continue reading
Posted in Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Web Design
Tagged New York Times, online behemoth
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More Free Audio Books
Podiobooks.com offers quite a few free, downloadable audiobooks, most with cc licenses. Add this to your list of free audiobook sites. from MetaFilter
Posted in Audio, Books, Copyright, Libraries, Online Services
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What is Web 2.0?
I am not a big fan of the term, but What is Web 2.0? (pdf) details the ideas and technologies that I do support for libraries and many individuals. I especially like their six “Big Ideas behind Web 2.0”: Individual … Continue reading
Library of Congress Meetings
The Library of Congress has formed the Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control, and will be having their first public meeting tomorrow, March 8th, at Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, California. The truly interesting thing is that anyone … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Conferences, Google, Government, Libraries
Tagged Andrew Pace, California, Chicago, Congress, Google, Karen Coyle, Karen Markey, Karen Schneider, Library of Congress, Library of Congress Meetings The
Library of Congress, Library of Congress Meetings The
Library of Congress, Mountain View
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Google Book Search Library Partners
The Google Book Search Library Partners page is a fairly interesting list of those (currently 13) libraries working with Google on the book scanning project. Follow the links for informational pages at each of the libraries, including some actual contracts. … Continue reading
Scribd
Scribd is a new website that is attempting to be like YouTube, but for documents. As in: Word, Pdf, Txt, Html, and so on. Do you have documents that people would find useful or interesting? This could be a means … Continue reading
Posted in Online Services, Search, Web Design, WebSearch
Tagged public site, YouTube
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New version, new look
Just updated WordPress, not only because of security issues with the previous version, but in anticipation of a software update on my web hosting service that could have created a problem. And so I decided to try installing a packaged … Continue reading
Posted in Blogs, Web Design
Tagged Daytona Beach, Florida, Seabreeze United Church, web hosting service
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LoudLit.org
LoutLit.org is a site with a collection of downloadable, CreativeCommons licensed audiobooks from the Gutenberg Project. Don’t forget these other sites as well! from MetaFilter
Posted in Audio, Books, Copyright, Libraries, Online Services
Tagged CreativeCommons
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Google: Suggest a Better Translation
It is only set up for Arabic, Chinese, and Russian, but Google Translate has developed a nice, social web solution to the problem of awkward translations. from the Official Google Blog
Posted in Google, Online Services, Search, WebSearch
Tagged Google, Official, social web solution
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Classical Music Downloads
The Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University has a couple of pages containing downloadable classical music. Peabody Symphony Orchestra; Peabody Concert Orchestra. from MetaFilter
Posted in Audio
Tagged Peabody Concert Orchestra, Peabody Institute, Peabody Symphony Orchestra, the Johns Hopkins University
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