The Alfred P. Sloan foundation has granted $1 million to the Internet Archive for digitization in 5 US institutions to boost the materials available in the Open Content Alliance (OCA). While the press about this announcement mainly contrasts the OCA to Google Books (and then actually spends more time talking about Google than the announcement!), …
I imagine that soon, we’ll all sit in front of a fireplace, trying to keep the holiday blues at bay with a glass of egg-nog and the reassuring crackle of burning wood. Once that moment of quiet desperation hits, may I recommend the following antidote? The latest RLG DigiNews is a special issue on Managing …
I am an economist by training, but only occasionally by trade. When I began my career at OCLC, I assumed that, for the most part, I had left the world of economists behind. But I was surprised to learn that many of the economists whose textbooks and papers I struggled through in graduate school have …
You may notice that we’ve changed this blog’s introductory text to indicate that its contributors now include colleagues from the OCLC Office of Research. I’m very pleased that some of the Dublin-based folks will now be using this space to communicate and converse on the topics and issues that we share in our new-ish Programs …
Yesterday I learned of the news from Saad Eskander, Director of the National Archives and Library of Iraq, as reported by Patricia Sleeman on the Archivists discussion list in the UK: Hi. For security, I have closed the National Library & Archive since 22 Nov. I will not reopen our institution until the security situation …
On the VRA listserv, Christine Sundt pointed to a brief article about a new policy at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London (V&A) – our friends in the UK have decided, so the headline of the article, to “scrap academic reproduction fees” for their images early next year. Alan Seal, Head of Records and …