Category Archives: Libraries

Faculty Atttitude Survey

Posted on April 23, 2013 by

A group called the Ithaka S+R has released the latest survey in its assessment of academics’ “practices, attitudes, and needs”.  Check out that 2012 US Faculty Survey here. Although the survey is 79 pages in its entirety, the findings are … Continue reading →

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Capitol Records v. ReDigi Decided!

Posted on April 2, 2013 by

Capitol Records v. ReDigi, a court case revolving around whether people can sell their used  iTunes tracks through ReDigi has been decided at the district court level. “No, siree” is the answer Judge Sullivan gave. Read a more detailed discussion … Continue reading →

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Scholarly Communication Librarian

Posted on March 22, 2013 by

I had the chance to share my thoughts on the role of a scholarly communication librarian in a health sciences library recently. These are the slides I used to talk on that topic. As a side note, I always think … Continue reading →

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Kirtsaeng v. Wiley Decided!

Posted on March 19, 2013 by

Kirtsaeng v. Wiley has been decided! Read the ruling hot off the Supreme Court press this morning! Yes, the opinion is 74 pages. But don’t be discouraged! You can get everything you need to know about the background of the case … Continue reading →

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A Sporadic Update

Posted on March 4, 2013 by

Remember this post? It is now two months and 25 days from the day I’ve posted that, and as everyone knows, 2 months & 25 days since the last update is the perfect time to do a new update. So … Continue reading →

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Freedom on the Wings of PDA

Posted on February 21, 2013 by

Suppose that a librarian is convinced (no thanks to the previous post I had) that he wants to select books that will have a higher probability of being used within, say, the next five to 10 years than the current … Continue reading →

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There is Only Use.

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

From Kathleen Fitzpatrick’s Planned Obsolescence, we find these words numerous libraries, already straining under the exponentially rising cost of journals, especially in the sciences, managed the cutbacks [in budgets] by reducing the number of monographs they purchased. The result for … Continue reading →

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Collaborative Archiving

Posted on February 19, 2013 by

I had the chance recently to make a presentation on some analysis I did with a small dataset. The goal for the project was to develop criteria to select a number of journals for archiving (think remove from the library shelves … Continue reading →

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Santa’s Little Helper

Posted on February 12, 2013 by

Since I found out that my campus library set aside money to buy materials that its patrons request to borrow from another institution, i.e. materials that the library did not yet have but for which there is proven demand, I’ve … Continue reading →

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This is the Most Awesome Thing Since Sliced Bread.

Posted on January 8, 2013 by

The most awesome thing since sliced bread is, of course, a license to grant “public non-commercial online access to copyrighted material” after sales of the material has dropped below a preset threshold. How sensible and cool is that! Check out a … Continue reading →

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