The issue of porn on public library computers is back in the news thanks to an incident at the Lake City Public Library in Washington State. A mother with her two children observed a man watching hard core porn there…
Archive for the ‘Digital Collections’ Category
JSTOR Opens Up A Little On Public Research And Congress Wants To Close It Down A Lot
16
Jan
Several stories are popping up on JSTOR’s Register and Read program which will allow non-affiliates to have limited free access to some of the content in JSTOR, with emphasis on the word “limited.” Signing up gives one access to a…
“If we can put a man on the moon, why can’t we launch the Library of Congress into cyberspace?” YES WE SCAN Petition
05
Jan
Carl Malamud (Public Resources.Org) and John Podesta (Center for American Progress) have launched a petition drive calling upon the federal government to create a Federal Scanning Commission. To date, thinking about digitization has been piecemeal. Individual agencies have thought about…
“If we can put a man on the moon, why can’t we launch the Library of Congress into cyberspace?” YES WE SCAN Petition
05
Jan
Carl Malamud (Public Resources.Org) and John Podesta (Center for American Progress) have launched a petition drive calling upon the federal government to create a Federal Scanning Commission. To date, thinking about digitization has been piecemeal. Individual agencies have thought about…
Thank You LLMC. I Heart You!
28
Nov
Law journals seem to be taking the brunt of the space burden in the world of the shrinking library. My impression is that many libraries are tossing them, though there are some old fashioned librarians like me who are philosophically…
Right-sizing Academic Law Library Print Collections in and for the 21st Century: Cornell substituting print with digital like "all other top law schools are doing" but consequences need to be addressed
23
Nov
Most every academic law library director knows that when their institutions need more space, the law library’s big footprint on the blueprint becomes an attractive target for a land grab. Law firm directors too. At least since the hiring boom…
Browsing On A Sunday Afternoon – Copyright and Captcha
06
Nov
Here are a few things to note on a Sunday afternoon. One is an article in CNET where Jennifer Pariser, RIAA senior vice president of litigation complained that the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) may need overhaul as the courts…
