The way we search for information on the web has antecedents in the way search works in traditional libraries and research journals. There’s metadata, and there’s also a sense of allowing the content that is most cited to float to the top.
So why the library of the future still being waylaid?
Read more of "Library Lab/The Podcast 009: What Libraries Want"The Royal Society—publisher of the first peer reviewed scientific article in history—has announced that its entire archive (which goes back to 1665) and all future issues will be available online for free. Here’s the searchable index.
Read more of "Royal Society goes open access"The Association of College and Research Libraries has signed the Berlin Declaration. The ACRL is a division of the American Library Association, and has 12,500 members (which is about 20% of the ALA’s membership). The Berlin Declaration was written in 2003 and encourages open access publishing. [via American Libraries Magazine, and a hat tip to David Curry.]
Read more of "ACRL supports open access declaration"There’s a blog about the library of works being accumulated by the Occupy Wall Street folks. The list of titles is a LibraryThing.
Read more of "Occupy Wall Street: The Library"For those interested in comparing the demos of the 6 DPLA Beta Sprint finalists (to be presented Oct. 21 in Washington, DC):
Read more of "DPLA Beta Sprint Finalists"Robert Darnton, historian and Director of the Harvard Library, talks about the future of books and libraries.
Read more of "Robert Darnton on books, ebooks, Google Books, and the DPLA"Avi Solomon at BoingBoing has a terrific interview with Michael Greer about the appeal of bookbinding, and about Michael’s “Digital Bible.”
Read more of "Bookbinding in the digital age"S. Peter Davis at Cracked explains the disturbing fact that libraries pulp books regularly and in secret.
Read more of "Why libraries pulp and shred books"