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Happy Open Access Week!
Woohoo! It’s Open Access Week! Open Access Week needs a theme song — something catchy, and well, open. I attended the morning sessions of Putting the Wisconsin Idea Online today to learn more about...
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The NIH Public Access Policy
The second talk of the day was from Julie Schneider, the Director at the Ebling Library for health sciences. I have an interest in medical libraries and so I was pretty excited to meet Julie and learn...
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Link Day
It’s been awhile — I guess it’s just that point in the semester. Today, a few links related (at least tangentially) to what we’ve discussed in class and a few other things I find interesting. Random...
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Can and will your library lend e-books?
Check out this post on Read Write Web entitled Will Your Local Library Lend e-books? Or can they? We read and talked quite a bit about e-books this week, so I thought this was quite relevant. The...
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Unit 12 Notes: E-books
Comparison points and decision points, Peters, Thomas A. (2007). Library Technology Reports 43 (1), 15-29. In this article, Peters spells out several issues for librarians to consider in the decision...
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Day in the Life of an Electronic Resources Librarian
Since the beginning of this course, I’ve often found myself wondering if electronic resource management is an area of librarianship that I could do and if I would want to do it. At times it seems...
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Unit 14: Notes on Perpetual Access
This week’s readings on perpetual access were fairly helpful to me. I admit I’d heard of Portico and LOCKSS, but really had no idea how they might work. In fact, I thought LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep...
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E-textbooks on a new device
The past few weeks we’ve looked at e-books and e-textbooks and the licenses that accompany the content. Recently, I read this article in Time magazine, titled Kno Wants a Slice of Apple. Apparently a...
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A few notes on standards
What’s that saying about standards? The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from! It’s true, in nearly every field, standards are and have become essential to the functioning...
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Reflecting on the semester of blogging
I started the semester (and blog) with the intention of making connections between the class topics and the “real world.” I think I viewed Electronic Resource Management as sort of a specialty within...
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