Here’s my third and final video from the library conference I attended week before last. This is a kind of rough cut made up of leftover snippets which still managed to work together pretty well. There’s discussion of demographics, virtual reality, the economy, bilingual education, and flying cars. James Hughes of Rutgers University gives some […]
Cory Doctorow attempts to illuminate Google on the subject: I’m still disappointed that Google puts restrictive notices on their public domain works (these aren’t licenses, just “polite notices”) that tell what you’re not allowed to do with these books. I know they’re worried about their competitors getting ahold of those documents, but that’s the deal […]
Here’s the second of my three videos shot at the Mid-Atlantic Library Futures Conference two weeks ago. This one is a little more professionally focused than the other two — librarians talking about where they think their profession is going: The first video in the series can be found here. I’m currently finishing up the […]
Here’s the first of three videos that I am putting together from the Mid-Atlantic Library Futures Conference which I attended last week. This one has responses to one of the Seven Questions About the Future:
As I mentioned in one of my previous posts on the conference, I was particularly intrigued by what Chip Nilges of the Online Computer Library Center had to say. His talk was very interesting on a couple of levels. On the one hand, libraries are more networked and web-enabled than I realized (and apparently becoming […]