Traditionally innovative – 450 Years of the Bavarian State Library Munich celebrates. In the Bavarian capital the year 2008 – at least within the city’s thriving library network – marks a very special birthday. The Bavarian State Library (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek) is celebrating 450th anniversary. The history of the present-day Bavarian State Library (Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek, [...]
Keynote: R. David Lankes – Syracuse The Mission of Librarians: To Improve Society Through Facilitating Knowledge Creation in their Communities Screencast: http://quartz.syr.edu/rdlankes/blog/?p=760 See Join the Mission – http://www.DavidLankes.org Serve Innovate – bring about change Lead – Librarians are trusted 3rd party source, lead on campus, obligation to say “you can be better” … global mission [...]
Competition for Library Services – Dr. Larry Nash White Not only provider May not be best Not First provider (14th in OCLC Survey) We compete with each other (libraries) Staffing: poaching & book publishing Competitors: (Options) Bookstores (Physical and online) Mom & Pop LSSI – outsourcing lib services (public, small academic, special libraries and they do it well) [...]
Allows people to be who they are, not what you want them to be
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
David Lewis (dlewis@iupui.edu) “Innovators Dillema” see site .. “Public Lib of Science” see Price for Open Source Publication Fee (ie: $2500 .. editorial board) Beware of “corporate capture” … Find Open Source Publishers / Fees .. I need samples Publishers who only do – Print on demand – ebook only ?? CC – Noncommercial-Share-Alike 3.0 [...]
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Mine “Ted” For Ideas and applications in Libraries
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Where is a place for photosynth in the library? http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/blaise_aguera_y_arcas_demos_photosynth.html http://livelabs.com/photosynth/ http://photosynth.net/Default.aspx http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/photosynth/synth
