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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: August 2009
Sponsor a Magazine
The Lepper Library in Lisbon, Ohio has initiated a new program to deal with severe budget cuts: they are asking their users to help out by sponsoring magazine subscriptions. This is a creative and interesting way to help maintain and … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, News, Periodicals, Promotions
Tagged Lepper Library, Library, magazines, Ohio, Periodicals, Save Ohio Libraries
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Dream your worst nightmare and invest in it
Change is the one constant of the universe – unless you need it for the bus. Seriously, though, thoughts of change can be very stressful for those in a workplace. Libraries are no different. In fact, we have avoided changing … Continue reading
Posted in Humor, Libraries
Tagged change, John Taysom, Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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BookChaser
I wrote a post about the BookChaser Editions service last year, but encountered a reference to another service they offer, and this led me to others: BookChaser Covers : compares cover images available from Amazon, Google Books, LibraryThing, and Open … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Libraries, Library 2.0, OCLC, Online Services, Search
Tagged Amazon, BookChaser, Google Books, ISBN, ISBNDB, Library of Congress, LibraryThing, Open Library, Worldcat
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RECAPing PACER
PACER is the online access portal for “U.S. Appellate, District, and Bankruptcy court records and documents nationwide”. Because the documents it provides are created by the federal judiciary, they are not copyrightable; because PACER is the only place to obtain … Continue reading
Posted in Archival, Copyright, Government, Online Databases, Online Services, Open Access, Open Source, Software
Tagged appellate court, Bankruptcy court, federal government, firefox, Government, Internet Archive, Legal research, Open Access, Open Source, PACER, Public records, RECAP, United States copyright law
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Books : A Plan To Scan
A very straightforward and readable overview of the issues surrounding Google’s book scanning project appeared in yesterdays Financial Times : Books : A plan to scan. A prime focus of the analysis is the Orphan Works issue, books that fall … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Copyright, Ethics, Fair Use, Google, Libraries, Library 2.0, Licensing
Tagged Book scanning, Copyright, Digital libraries, Financial Times, Google, Library and information science, Orphan works, United States copyright law
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OHP + SPO = OA
The Open Humanities Press (OHP) has joined forces with the University of Michigan Library’s Scholarly Publications Office (SPO) to start up a series of open access monographs: New Metaphysics Critical Climate Change Global Conversations Unidentified Theoretical Objects and my favorite… … Continue reading
Posted in Books, Licensing, Open Access, Publishing
Tagged Entertainment/Culture, Karen Schneiderman, OHP, Open Access, Open Humanities Press, remix, Scholarly Publications Office, SPO, University of Michigan
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NASA Educator Resource Centers
With NASA in the news so much lately(1, 2, 3, 4), it seems a good reminder that the organization has nearly 70 Educator Resource Centers across the country. These are fantastic resources to tap for information relevant to a wide … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Government, Libraries, Medical, News, Science, Space
Tagged Education, Educator Resource Center, Kennedy Space Center, Libraries, Medical, NASA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Science, Space
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