We’ve created an embeddable widget for the Awesome Box. This widget allows Awesome Box members to share items that have been awesomed without forcing their patrons to visit the Awesome Box site.
Read more of "Awesome Widget"Awesome Boxes at Somerville Public Library
Our Awesome Boxes were itching to get their hands on even more books, music and movies so they jumped the fence and escaped Harvard Yard to their first public library home. A box can now be found at each of the three branches of the Somerville Public Library.
Read more of "Awesome Boxes at Somerville Public Library"Are publishers out-competing libraries? Podcast with Andrew Odlyzko
[mp3 here]
Last week, Andrew Odlyzko [wikipedia] a mathematician and historian, and former head of the University of Minnesota’s Digital Technology Center, posted a research paper that concludes that the data suggest that libraries are losing their competition with the publishers of academic journals. Andrew is a long-time open access advocate, so he’s not saying this is a good thing. But he is a data-driven historian.
So I gave him a call, and we talked for about 25 minutes about the paper, and more generally about the role of curators in an age of free or cheap abundance. You can listen here.
Read more of "Are publishers out-competing libraries? Podcast with Andrew Odlyzko"Boxes deployed, more data
We recently rolled out more Awesome Boxes here at Harvard. We now have boxes in Widener, Langdell, Lamont, and Cabot.
Read more of "Boxes deployed, more data"Library Innovation Lab Featured in Chronicle Of Higher Education
Marc Parry of the Chronicle of Higher Education wrote a nice piece yesterday featuring some of our projects and discussing the privacy issues libraries face in the digital age.
Read more of "Library Innovation Lab Featured in Chronicle Of Higher Education"Karen Coyle Unwraps Linked Data for the Rest of Us
Karen Coyle has come to the rescue for those of us who have tried (often unsuccessfully) to wrap our heads around linked data. Her recent post gives a simple example of how to tag linked data and talks about how to use linked data to expose information about libraries that has previously been overlooked.
Read more of "Karen Coyle Unwraps Linked Data for the Rest of Us"Hathi Trust’s copyright victory
Paul Courant, one of the founders of the Hathi Trust, explains this week’s ruling throwing out a lawsuit by the Authors Guild claiming that Hathi’s scan-and-index program violated copyright.
Read more of "Hathi Trust's copyright victory"A conversation about the future of the book
Come join us, metaLAB and Library Test Kitchen folk for a conversation about the future of the book, Tuesday, Oct. 9th, 42 Kirkland Street
We read
A few books to help us get it done.
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We had our first meeting of GSD Seminar 09125, Library Test Kitchen.
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