IMLS WebWise
I’d like to make sure that I tout IMLS WebWise 2007 on the blog before I leave on vacation (be back mid January) – I’d be remiss if I didn’t, …
Read MoreMass Digitization for art libraries and special collections
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). …
Read MoreCelebrate the holidays with a dose of DAM!
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 …
Read MoreEconomists everywhere
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 …
Read MoreOCLC Programs AND Research – here, too
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 …
Read MoreBad News from Baghdad
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 …
Read MoreV&A – no more academic reproduction fees
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 …
Read MoreLet’s do the numbers…
DISCLAIMER: Only trust a statistic you’ve faked yourself! Well, I didn’t fake it, but I did make a mistake in the list of domains – the data I had originally …
Read MoreExemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act
Robin Dale, who sits in the cube adjacent to me, alerted me to some wonderful news for the digital preservation community: Library of Congress just issued “Exemptions from Prohibition on …
Read MoreWho are you blogging for?
Richard posted a nifty summary of the session on Blogs I moderated at MCN – I’ve meant to write up some of my notes as a post as well, but …
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