Browsing Wikipedia today, I found a page with an intriguing title: chained library:
A chained library is a library where the books are attached to their bookcase by a chain, which is sufficiently long to allow the books to be taken from their shelves and read, but not removed from the library itself. This practice was [...]
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Unchaining the library
LOC preserving legal blogs
Following on my recent post about preservation for scholarly blogs (and see Dorothea Salo’s take), today I found this (via techPresident):
The Law Library of Congress began harvesting legal blawgs in 2007. The collection has grown to more than one hundred items covering a broad cross section of legal topics.
Questions:
What are the criteria for inclusion [...]
Preservation for scholarly blogs
I’ve wondered about preservation for new modes of scholarly communication and ephemera, e.g. scholarly blogs, mailing lists, etc. Others have suggested it recently as well. A cursory Googling finds a few others mulling the question, but not (at first glance) anybody actually doing it.
I don’t do much with preservation, so I plead ignorance. Is anybody [...]
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 [...]
Reflecting on Open Access Day
Yesterday was the first Open Access Day — and what a day it was. What follows are my personal reflections.
I wasn’t able to be as involved with OA Day as I would have liked, due to a variety of personal matters, but I still think of it as (in some part) my baby. I was [...]
Ludicrously closed access; or how to alienate readers and look foolish
It started with a post the liblicense mailing list, announcing a new journal entitled the Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship. The journal, the post said, was published by the Haworth Press (a subsidiary of Taylor & Francis since its acquisition last year). The inaugural issue had been released, according to the announcement, and it appeared [...]
Podcast of my talk at Simmons library school
Simmons College’s Graduate School of Library and Information Science has posted a podcast of my presentation there in May on students and open access. (Thanks to Peter for noticing it, even when the Google Alert on my name didn’t.)
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 [...]
