Songphan requests that I post this: Do you blog? If yes, then please consider participating in an online survey from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s School of Information and Library Science. The study, Blogger Perceptions on Digital Preservation, is being conducted under the guidance of The Real Paul Jones. The study team is interested in hearing from all bloggers on their perceptions on digital preservation in relation.. Read More
This conversation was and still is being blogged
Earlier today I was on the panel of: THIS CONVERSATION IS BEING BLOGGED: Our lives, online, all the time, in the trend towards lifelogging And I’m feeling a bit of peer pressure here: Paul and Terrell both wrote about their topics ahead of time, and I didn’t. So I’ll write about it now. Also I’m amused by the recursiveness of blogging about this panel, and the fact that it was.. Read More
Twelve Angry Mentos
One of my favorite literary events, the Edible Book Festival returns to Duke, on April 2. Who says you can’t eat in the library?
The bookless library
If a Library Is Bookless, What’s In It?, from NPR It’s always interesting to me to see how libraries are presented in the media. This piece makes us look rather cutting-edge, which is a happy thing. Amusingly, there were technical problems with the first guest, who was connecting remotely from the studios of a member station, and what Neal Conan got was dead air. And my immediate thought was: and.. Read More
Electronic Backfiles at Duke
New Library News from Duke: Electronic Backfiles of More than 3,000 Journals Purchased by the Duke Libraries Most of the 3,000+ e-journal titles were acquired through purchase of the interdisciplinary Periodicals Archive Online (PAO) and of science and social science packages offered by several major journal publishers. These backfiles can be accessed by title through the library catalog and through the e-journal link on the library Web site.
Hughes, Elsevier, PubMed
Hughes Institute’s Deal With Elsevier Will Open Up Access to Its Researchers’ Work, from The Chronicle The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, the nation’s largest private supporter of biomedical research, announced on Thursday that it would pay the publishing giant Elsevier to open up access to papers that scientists affiliated with the institute have published in any of the 2,000 journals in the Elsevier family… According to the agreement, Elsevier would.. Read More
Yet another commercial, non-expert Ask service
I got this email today from Amazon: You’re Invited! As a valued Amazon customer, you’ve been specially picked to get an early look at a new website Amazon has just launched called Askville. Askville is a place where you can ask any question on any topic and get real answers from real people. It’s a fun place to meet others with similar interests to you and a place where you.. Read More
The influenza market
A question, or really a related set of questions, has been bugging me for going on 2 years now: How to avoid the free rider problem? What are the incentives for individuals to participate in and contribute to an open project? (e.g., an open source development project, or a digital reference consortium — that is, a project for which expertise is required but not rewarded, in that participants receive no.. Read More
The scientific literature is strangely bereft of teaspoon related research
This is why I love NPR: Scientists Befuddled in Missing Teaspoon Caper The best part of this is that the article that NPR reports on was published in BMJ: The case of the disappearing teaspoons: longitudinal cohort study of the displacement of teaspoons in an Australian research institute “…the scientific literature is strangely bereft of teaspoon related research”? “The tragedy of the commons applies equally well to teaspoons”? Poetry. I’m.. Read More
Plymouth NH is cooler than you thought
My parents, who live in way northern New Hampshire, sent me an article the other day from Plymouth Magazine about a point of local technological pride: the information architect for the Lamson Library at Plymouth State University in Plymouth NH recently received the Mellon Award for Technology Collaboration. For what did he win this? For WPopac, an OPAC app based on WordPress. This OPAC now seems to be the default,.. Read More