DSpace on Gentoo
I’ve put up some instructions on installing DSpace 1.4 on Gentoo Linux, along with some minor configuration instructions. I’ll be updating it with additional information throughout the Fall semester.
View ArticleALA’s President-Elect’s blogs
Loriene Roy, ALA’s president-elect, is a faculty member here at the School of Information. I’ve been acquainted with her from some time, first as a student, later as a staff member, and now both. I...
View ArticleGeorgia Harper’s blog; UT Libraries
Copyright attorney Georgia Harper is now attending the iSchool and has an interesting blog. http://georgiaharper.blogspot.com/index.html She’s currently working for the University Libraries, which is a...
View ArticleCritical Information Studies
I liked the concept of Critical Information Studies when Siva Vaidhyanathan first made his bibliographic manifesto available on his website. After a semester of “Doctoral Research and Theory I” at the...
View ArticleMeasuring the effectiveness of copyright
How do we measure whether or not copyright is working? That’s one of the main reasons I came to doctoral school. We’re stuck in a legal and strict economic framework rut in a lot of ways, in my...
View ArticleInternet Archive pages not evidence?
Saw on BNA Internet Law News… apparently a New York federal court has ruled that materials from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine are inadmissible without “authenticating testimony from someone...
View ArticleInformation through time
Every so often I am amazed by the ingenuity that exists between people today and in the past- about the kinds of things we rediscover so many hundreds of years after their creation. Originally seen on...
View ArticleSection 108 Study Group Report Released
http://www.section108.gov/docs/Sec108StudyGroupReport.pdf At 212 pages, it’s not going to be a quick read. Let’s see what happens to copyright and libraries, archives, and museums…
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There’s a new Orphan Works Bill in Town
As always, there’s good news and bad news. There’s an immense amount of erroneous information about the new orphan works bill, primarily from certain people who are worried about their livelihoods. I...
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danah boyd: http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2013/01/13/aaron-swartz.html Timothy Burke: http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/01/15/essay-role-academe-tragedy-aaron-swartzs-death Barbara...
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