Author Archives: jwa
Deciding what to count…
Several years ago, Pat Graham and David Stewart initiated a conversation about developing a metric for success among ATLA librarians. For a long while I have thought they were right in asking whether we were actually measuring what we should … Continue reading
Envisioning a New Learning and Research Environment
In conversations with faculty, librarians, students and administrators in recent months, two common themes have emerged. First, exciting new technological tools are emerging that hold great promise for enhancing research and learning at Boston University. Second, the task of integrating … Continue reading
The Purpose of Copyright
Open Spaces Quarterly published an excellent essay on The Purpose of Copyright … The Purpose of Copyright by Lydia Pallas Loren Lydia Pallas Loren is Associate Professor of Law, Northwestern School of Law of Lewis & Clark College. The core … Continue reading
Model Language for Author Rights in Library Content Licenses
The idea of developing model language for author rights in library content licenses emerged at a meeting on policy development for open-access repositories hosted by the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) in January 2009…. An ad hoc working group was … Continue reading
Thomas Frey on the “Future of Libraries…”
American Libraries published an interview with Thomas Frey on the Future of Libraries… All around me I see people transitioning from consumers to producers. These “tools of production” that Chris Anderson talked about are now easily accessible. For libraries, the … Continue reading
JISC/OCLC report | Digital information seekers: How academic libraries can support the use of digital resources
A JISC funded OCLC report and podcast on digital information seeking behavior: Users’ perceptions of library services have been slow to change and many people still tend to think of libraries as collections of books rather than providers of electronic … Continue reading
New article on Intellectual Property by Dorothea Salo
Just noticed Dorothea Salo’s article: Salo, Dorothea. “Who owns our work?” Serials 23:3, 2010. http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1793/45742 abstract: Much turmoil in the scholarly-communication ecosystem appears to revolve around simple ownership of intellectual property. Unpacking that notion, however, produces a fascinating tangle of … Continue reading
Lessig and EFF Respond to ASCAP
The recent fund raising campaign launched by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) prompted several responses including Lawrence Lessig’s response in the Huffington Post in which he defends Creative Commons, Creative Commons own response, and the Electronic … Continue reading
And then there are new models of publishing…
One of the significant issues raised at the SPARC Forum in June was open access text books. Richard Baraniuk talks about one of the open access publishing platforms, Connexions, developed at Rice University. Richard Baraniuk: Goodbye, textbooks; hello, open-source learning
A problem of scale
Personanondata provides an interesting analysis of issues of scalability in commercial publishing. The scale model that built companies like Macmillan, Inc. is irreparably dead to anyone thinking about the future of publishing. The only way out – and it’s not … Continue reading
