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Monthly Archives: December 2007
Quick! While there’s still time!
Folks interested in copyright information sharing may be interested in the following draft proposal for encoding copyright evidence in MARC records, the standard format used for library catalog records. It was published on December 17, just a couple of days … Continue reading
Quick links of interest
Some resources I’ve recently hear about that look like they deserve some attention (which I haven’t given them yet, but find worth noting now) The first issue of the Code4lib journal is out, with lots of interesting-looking articles on next-generation … Continue reading
Kids on the lawn, and copynorms
There’s an interesting discussion over in John Scalzi’s blog about a new organization called the Organization for Transformative Works, which essentially aims to legitimize fan fiction as first-class expressions safe from copyright challenges. As I write this, there are over … Continue reading
Posted in copyright, sharing
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Notes (and Queries) about adopting serials
The other night, Mary was researching the authorship of a memoir of the Battle of Waterloo, originally published under the by-line “An Englishwoman”. After searching online, she found a link to an article published in an 1871 issue of Notes … Continue reading
Posted in open access, serials
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Copyright information sharing: An update
I regularly get mail about the web pages I have on copyright registrations and renewals and the inventory I did on the first renewals of periodicals. Turns out a lot of folks, both inside and outside of libraries, are interested … Continue reading
Posted in copyright, sharing
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Library branding? I got your library branding right here
Hey, I’d love to be able to give directions like this to where I work: “Just look for the giant books“. Okay, one of these is only a temporary facade, and the other is for the parking garage rather than … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, libraries
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