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Wendy Seltzer on "Legal Threats, Chilling Effects, and Warming the Air"
via Berkman Blog by (author unknown) on January 23, 2008
Yesterday, Berkman fellow Wendy Seltzer participated in an Educase Live panel, speaking on "Legal Threats, Chilling Effects, and Warming the Air." From Educase: The recording industrys complaints against alleged music downloaders are just the tip of the iceberg in legal threats against online activity. In the five years of the Chilling Effects Clearinghouse, we have seen thousands of legal...
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Hooray! LCN 6:1 (Theme: "Information Valuation") is online
via Library Connect News by Elsevier on January 22, 2008
The latest Library Connect Newsletter (6:1) is now online in HTML and PDF.Addressing the theme of "information valuation," this issue explores how librarians and Elsevier are measuring the value of scholarly information as well as how to increase the value of e-resource investments.See the issue at www.elsevier.com/libraryconnect.
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UCSD librarians talk about development
via Library Connect News by Elsevier on January 22, 2008
UCSD librarians Barbara Brink and Martha Hruska recently spoke with Elsevier colleague Chrysanne Lowe about the importance of development to the UCSD libraries.Find their comments in the Library Connect Newsletter interview at http://libraryconnect.elsevier.com/lcn/0601/lcn060106.html.
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It's new and improved -- but annoying to some patrons
via LISNews - Librarian And Information Science News by Blake on January 23, 2008
Part of the Columbus Metropolitan Library's Web site (www.columbuslibrary.org) has been updated to allow complex searches and provide new information. Yet, for those who simply want to check the availability of a book, the changes have sometimes spurred exercises in frustration."Now, instead of getting the information you are looking for, you are inundated with every conceivable piece of...
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College Students Want Elders Off Their Technology Cloud
via The Kept-Up Academic Librarian by steven bell on January 23, 2008
"It's nice that adults know SOME things," says Seigal, an 18-year-old freshman at Binghamton University in New York. He especially likes IMing with his grandma because he's "not a huge talker on the phone." Increasingly, however, he and other young people are feeling uncomfortable about their elders encroaching on what many young adults and teens consider their technological turf. Nowhere...
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Mashups, DVD Ripping, and Fair Use
via Citizen Media Law Project - by Sam Bayard on January 22, 2008
Chris Soghoian at CNET Blogs published an interesting post yesterday -- Did Slate violate copyright law? It talks about a hilarious mashup video that Slate posted a few days ago called Hillary's Inner Tracy Flick, which juxtaposes images from the 1999 film Election and current footage of presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton. The mashup plays on the earnestness and ambition shared by...
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Incorporating Screencasts In Online Teaching
via The Distant Librarian by Paul R. Pival on January 21, 2008
... Media Center’ (EDCI 545) online, one component continued to be a problem for students, the Dewey Decimal Classification System. To supplement the instruction, a set of simple screencasts was developed to assist distance education students. Benchmarks were established and a beta test conducted. It is expected that the next online class of students will have increased success because of the a...
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understanding academic copyright
via Google Blog Search: library copyright by Richard Akerman on January 21, 2008
through puppets. via David Flanders - Twitter.
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