In late 2006 or early 2007, I was looking for ways to get students interested in open access. I had started to become versed in the topic myself a few months earlier, after my library announced it planned to cut subscriptions around the same time the Federal Research Public Access Act was introduced for the [...]
Posts under ‘Florida’
Ada Lovelace Day: Celebrating women in technology
Today is Ada Lovelace Day, a day to call attention to the achievements of women in technology. Despite its stereotype as a field dominated by men, women have made significant contributions to the field of computing since its inception, back to Lovelace herself, the first computer programmer, having designed a program for Charles Babbage’s analytical [...]
OA at ALA: How do the chapters fare?
A recent post on Open Access News highlighted the fact that while the American Library Association supports OA as a matter of policy, several of its journals are not themselves OA.
I remembered having been shocked that the Florida Library Association, a state ALA chapter, didn’t provide OA to its journal. So I decided to investigate [...]
CopyNight Orlando, April 22
The February meeting of CopyNight Orlando will be Tuesday, April 22 (Earth Day!) at 7 pm at Stardust Video & Coffee (1842 E. Winter Park Rd., Orlando). This month is an open topic: whatever participants want to discuss. Learn more at copynight.org or my CopyNight page. Hope to see you there!
Passenger rail for Florida
The United Rail Passenger Alliance recently posted an extensive and thought-provoking analysis and recommendations for regional passenger rail in Florida.
Florida is currently served by two long-distance Amtrak routes, with daily service in each direction: the Silver Meteor and the Silver Star. Both routes have New York City as their northernmost terminus, to Miami in the [...]
BarCamp Orlando
It’s coming…
Just kidding! I’m sure it’ll be great
BarCamp Orlando, April 5-6, 2008
Now blogging @ Florida Progressive Coalition
Florida Progressive Coalition is a group blog about politics in Florida from a progressive perspective. I recently started blogging there. My posts so far:
Florida fails the working poor
Progressive messaging from… the Chamber?
To follow my future posts, grab the RSS feed of my posts there. (That link will only include posts by me, not by other [...]
Gov. Crist proclaims Library Appreciation Month
… WHEREAS, the expansion of electronic networks linking libraries and their resources gives users easier access to information; …
