Expect Resistance & Library Autonomous Zone

Perhaps I need to create a new category “Better late than never”! This would be the first one as I’m just getting around to posting this month’s BOTM.

And because I’m way behind, I’d like to highlight TWO blogs. That’s right, it’s a twofer.

The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog and the Association of College & Research Libraries (ACRL) blog are this month’s highlights.

While the ChronicleBlog *does* tend to link to articles in the Chronicle of Higher Education (and therefore require subscription to access), there is enough there to warrent adding them to your RSS feed reader. A scan through the most recent postings includes postings on Bill Gates and the $100 laptop, worms and viruses on RFID, social network snooping by university police depts, and college acceptance letters via podcast. Good stuff.

The ACRLBlog comes with the byline “blogging by and for academic and research librarians.” So there’s alot there of interest to y’all. Read an interesting op-ed piece on the myth og the LIS grad, “library 2.0″, LOEX, social tagging and the OPAC and much more.

Yale A2K conference

Named after the proposed treaty by the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), (for more see Consumer Project on Technology A2K site), Yale Law school and the Information Society Project will host the A2K conference next month. The goal of the A2K is to “to come up with a new analytic framework for analysing the possibly distortive effects of public policies relying exclusively on intellectual property rights. Beyond this aim, the A2K initiative seeks to support the adoption and development of alternative ways to foster greater access to knowledge in the digitally connected environment.” The list of speakers includes a host of leading copyright thinkers and activists from around the world.