'Digital Library Issues' Category
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What can libraries learn from the web?
December 5, 2005Learning from THE WEB, by Adam Bosworth, ACM Queue vol. 3, no. 8 – October 2005. Bosworth, who has worked for Microsoft, BEA, and now Google draws interesting conclusions from how people use the web and how and why the web works. Although he doesn’t address libraries directly, he does compare and contrast the way [...]
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digg vs. Slashdot vs. Memeorandum
November 13, 2005Links: Nov 11, 2005″ href=”http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2005/11/links_nov_11_2005.html”>O’Reilly Radar > Links: Nov 11, 2005 In his Friday list of interesting links, Tim O’Reilly includes a note about the technology news web site, digg, which covers some of the same territory as slashdot and tech.memeorandum. O’Reilly, commenting on the different way these sites work, says, “There’s an interesting battle [...]
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The library audiobook problem
November 13, 2005Yo, Libraries: say No to DRM The Doc Searls Weblog Saturday, November 12, 2005. Recently there have been a number of newspaper articles, each exclaiming how a local library is providing audiobooks. Most of the time these articles refer to services offered through NetLibrary. One article (Spinning tales By JENNIFER GISH, Albany NY TimesUnion, October [...]
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Stanford provides audio via iTunes
October 24, 2005Stanford iTunes Stanford on iTunes provides university-related audio content via the iTunes Music Store, AppleÕs popular music jukebox and online music store. Stanford on iTunes gives alumni and the general public free access to a wide range of Stanford-specific digital audio content. The project includes two sites: a public site, targeted primarily at alumni, which [...]
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Shrink-wrap licenses and libraries
October 4, 2005By Tearing Open That Cardboard Box, Are You Also Signing on the Dotted Line? – By J. D. BIERSDORFER, New York Times, October 3, 2005 This article is about patented products and how companies (specifically Lexmark, the printer cartridge maker) are trying (and succeeding) to force limitations based on licensing. I was thinking about this [...]
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To fix or not to fix online news errors?
August 1, 2004To Fix or Not to Fix: Online Corrections Policies Vary Widely by Mark Thompson, Posted: 2004-07-28, Online Journalism Review. What happens to the online version of a newspaper when the newspaper corrects an error? Does it change the story? Leave the story, but append a correction? Leave the error? Policies are changing and this article [...]
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Information Architecture Library
April 23, 2004AIFIA | IA Library Asilomar Institute for Information Architecture. The IA Library is a selection of resources related to the field of information architecture. The collection includes articles, books, blogs, and more.
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Information Technology Leadership in Higher Education
February 24, 2004ECAR Research Publications. The Educause Center for Applied Research (ECAR) has published a study, Information Technology Leadership in Higher Education: The Condition of the Community (PDF, 122 pages), which is available to members of ECAR Subscribing Organizations. The document “reports the results of a quantitative survey of 1,850 IT leaders and professionals at 765 higher [...]
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Must Read article of the month
January 2, 2004When executives code by Phillip Armour. Communications of the ACM Volume 47 , Issue 1 (January 2004) Pages: 19 – 22 Year of Publication: 2004. This article is available online through the ACM digital library (link above). The author describes conducting an experimental three-day program to teach executives about software. After a day of lectures, [...]
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Amazon full-text index debuts
October 27, 2003Wired News: The Great Library of Amazonia By Gary Wolf. Oct. 23, 2003; This story will appear in Wired magazine’s upcoming December issue, 11.12. Over the past spring and summer, the company created an unrivaled digital archive of more than 120,000 books. The goal is to quickly add most of Amazon’s multimillion-title catalog. The entire [...]