libraries and Digital Libraries

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

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.

This moring I was the session convener for the session on DPubs. This is an exciting new open source collaboration between the Cornell University Libraries and the Pennsylvania State University Libraries. It was interesting that the term commons based peer production (CBPP) did not come up. I have been hearing this everywhere lately when describing open-source collaborations.

Well, back to DPubs, it is interesting to hear that they are working on kickstart scripts to make installation as easily replicable as possible. This is great becasue I want to setup an install on RedHat as soon as possible.

For those of you using DSpace or Fedora for Institutional Repositories keep DPubs in mind as they want to use their publication tools as an API for these IR tools in order to generate more content for IR's.

Thanks to Thomas Hickerson, David Ruddy, and Eric Ferrin for such an inspiring presentation.

Their presentation is already online thanks to the new self-submission site for Educause.

See:
http://www.educause.edu/E05/Program/5085?PRODUCT_CODE=E05/SESS006