“Your average citizen is not technologically savvy,” says Marilyn Johnson, the author of This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
Read more of "Library Lab/The Podcast 011: A Technological Graveyard?"“Your average citizen is not technologically savvy,” says Marilyn Johnson, the author of This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All
Read more of "Library Lab/The Podcast 011: A Technological Graveyard?"A recent webinar hosted by the Association of Southeastern Research Libraries (ASERL) featured our ShelfLife and Stackview applications. Also featured in the webinar was a stack browsing application developed by the North Carolina State University Libraries.
Read more of "ASERL Webinar - ShelfLife and Stackview"I posted an idea the other day. It’s called Library License. It’s a way to make works digitally available through libraries, after a specified amount of time has elapsed since publication date. It is a currently a sketch of an idea, to be evolved openly. It’s more a movement, perhaps in the form of a “drag n drop” clause that content creators may add to their licensing agreements with publishers.
Read more of "Library License"The Digital Public Library of America today announced that initial (and interim) development work on the DPLA platform will be done by the LibraryCloud team here at the Library Innovation Lab—Paul Deschner, Matthew Phillips, and David Weinberger—plus our Berkman friends, Daniel Collis-Puro and Sebastian Diaz. We’ll do this as openly as possible, relying upon the community to help at every phase, but this will be our core work during the first phase of the platform’s development, leading up to an April 26 DPLA Steering Committee meeting.
Read more of "LibraryCloud team to work on DPLA platform"The CBC show Spark a couple of days ago ran an 8 minute piece about the two biggest projects coming out of the Harvard Library Innovation Lab, ShelfLife and LibraryCloud. It does a great job cutting together an interview of me with an illuminating narrative from Nora Young.
Read more of "LibraryCloud and ShelfLife on CBC"Alison Head, who is spending time with us at the LiL as she simultaneously is a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center—she is the co-diorector of Project Information Literacy at the Univ. of Washington’s Information School—spoke with us about a new study she’s done with Michael Eisenberg [pdf] about what students are actually doing with their electronic companions when in the library during “crunch time” (two weeks before exams). Are they multitasking? Are they playing games or Facebooking instead of studying? Are they managing their devices, or are their devices managing them?
In this interview, Alison explains that answers are of course complex, but that overall, The Kids are managing well…and that this may give some hints about the future of libraries.
The CBC radio show Spark has posted the unedited version of an interview they did with me last week about ShelfLife and LibraryCloud. A much shorter version of this will air soon.
Read more of "ShelfLife and LibraryCloud on CBC"Michael Jensen explains why the National Academies Press decided to make its material openly available.
Read more of "Michael Jensen on NAP's decision to publish for free"Eric Frank is the president and co-founder of Flat World Knowledge, Inc., which publishes peer-reviewed online textbooks available under Creative Commons license. He explains his business.
Read more of "Eric Frank on open textbooks"Avi Warshavsky builds online textbooks for Center for Educational Technology in Israel. He talks about whether textbooks have a future.
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