Then again, I think maybe I just need to work for this new project. All digitized content of some major libraries — including the Library of Congress — available freely to online users. [riba rambles]
card catalog art continues
Speaking of library art, check out this description of a new art show by the guy who owns the LAPL’s old catalog cards. [thanks chris]
hi – 21dec
Hi and Happy Solstice. The days just start getting longer, starting now. I’ve been spending some time mulling over the various responses to the Google/Libraries news from last week, including Karen’s reprinting of Mark Rosenzweig’s comments with some of her own, Rory, and Chuck. While I don’t have a manifesto-worthy response of my own, I just want to point out that most of the issues that are wrapped up in this one event — issues like privacy, commercialization of information, ownership of information, copyright and the future of libraries — have already been playing themselves out, in smaller ways, in libraries everywhere. The fact that one publicly-traded company has been able to use their vast resources to leverage co-operation with prestigious libraries just forces us to examine a lot of these issues together, and all at once. Learn why this issue matters, and then tell your collegagues and friends.
ALIA photos
This is probably of interest to no one but me, but if you’d like to see photos of the conference I attended in Australia, they are now online along with some cool desktop wallpaper images.
wonder what those 300 pamphlets were about?
A different kind of Iraqi library story. [thanks ken]