About half a decade ago, my fascination with (and anger about) issues arising from the growing push toward licensing access to library materials, rather than purchasing them outright, pushed me out of a traditional library career path and into one that would allow me to focus more deeply on explication of and advocacy for the [...]
Archive for March, 2009
Fighting for non-rival pudding
Posted in Digitization, IP, Technology on March 24, 2009 | 3 Comments »
My Intro Lecture on IP
Posted in IP, Teaching on March 11, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few weeks ago, I gave two days’ worth of lectures on intellectual property to the undergraduate class I’m helping teach this quarter. They seemed to like it, and a few people have asked me to send this to them, so I figured I’d post it up here for other folks to peruse. Note that [...]
New Pub: “Reinventing Science Librarianship: Themes from the ARL-CNI Forum”
Posted in eScience, Libraries, Publications on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve got a piece in the latest issue (the first issue, really) of Research Library Issues (previously the ARL Bimonthly Report) covering the takeaway points from last October’s forum on e-science and the future of science librarianship. The PDF has embedded audio from presentations by Rick Luce, Liz Lyon, and Cliff Lynch (oooo…multimeeeedia…) – that’s [...]

