Digital Libraries and Digital Library Services

In this 18 minute podcast, we feature an interview with Roger C. Schonfeld, Manager of Research at Ithaka, an independent not-for-profit organization with a mission to accelerate the productive uses of information technologies for the benefit of higher education worldwide.

Libraries must chart the engineering of new architectures for teaching, learning, and research in order to accommodate making science and artistic expression more readily available, in concert with the increasing sophistication of commercial partners and the development of distributed, interactive forms of publishing. During the January 30 EDUCAUSE Live!, Peter Brantley, Director-Designate of the Digital Library Federation and Director of Strategic Technology, Academic Information Services, at the University of California Office of the President, will discuss how digital libraries must work to forge the new collaborations required to enable and build teaching, learning, and research services. This hour-long, free Web seminar is open to the public. Unable to attend? Visit the archives. Peruse EDUCAUSE resources on digital libraries and digital library services.

The European Commissionis to build a European digital library able to display around six million books, photographs and films and available to all internet users by 2010.

US Internet search giant Google started an international race to build an online library when it announced plans in December 2004 to digitise books and documents from a handful of big libraries.

Since then, US Internet and software giants Yahoo, Microsoft and Amazon have announced separate plans while France, upset that private companies took the lead, has pushed for the creation of a public digital library, AFP reports.

C|NET has a nine and a half minute video of Mary Sue Coleman speaking about their library digitization project.
http://news.com.com/1606-2_3-6036176.html

The transcript of her speech is available her:
http://www.umich.edu/pres/speeches/060206google.html

In this 32 minute recording, I join Rick Weingarten, Director of the ALA's Office of IT Policy, for a look inside the beltway.  Join us as he shares a brief bit of background about the American Library Association and a fairly interesting discussion about privacy, the google print litigation, and internet governance.

Also of interest could be ACRL's blog entry noting a number of higher ed associations have released a guide to copyright. Oh, and don't forget resources from our own policy office ;)



This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

In this 28 minute recording, I sit down with New York Public Library's Digital Library Program Director, Barbara Taranto.  Listen in as she compares the work of academic and public libraries, shares her views on social software and the incorporation of technology in the academic enterprise, discusses public and academic library partnerships, disaster recovery/business continuity, google print, and much more.

Those interested in this podcast might also find interest in Lorcan Dempsey's recent blog entry entitled Circulating intentional data.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

In this 20 minute recording, I sit down with RLG's James Michalko for to gather some thoughts on their participation in the Open Content Alliance, their RedLightGreen.com service, blogging at hangingtogether.org and we talk briefly about issues involving intellectual property and patents.

For more information about RLG, visit http://www.rlg.org


This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org

In this 33 minute recording, I sit down with Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian, Director and Co-Founder of the Internet Archive.  We'll talk about the Open Content Alliance, the Internet Archive's Scribe book scanning technology, and much more.

If you haven't listened to the ITConversations podcast of Brewster entitled Universal Access to All Knowledge, I'd definitely recommend it!  It was recorded almost one year ago to the date, but it remains very, very interesting.  

Bryan Alexander covered Brewster's presence at the event here and here.

This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org
 

My colleague, Chuck Thomas, and I have put up a recent paper that we did "Millennial Net Value(s): Disconnects Between Libraries and the Information Age Mindset" in the FSU Institutional Repository.  This paper was originally created for the wonderful symposium Free Culture & the Digital Library held at Emory University. We are very interested in working with other libraries in studying subsets of this generation and how research libraries can evolve to support their research and information needs. This would be a good book opportunity as well. If you are interested, please contact us at cthomas at mailer.fsu.edu or rmcdonal at mailer.fsu.edu.

In this recording, we'll continue our coverage of the library sector, but from an international perspective.  Let's listen in as Vidya interviews Marc van den Berg, the Department Head of Electronic Services at the Universiteit van Amsterdam.  The running time for this recording is about 20 minutes.