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Author Archives: John Mark Ockerbloom
The right to read, circa 1906
For a few years in the early 1900s, some American book publishers came up with a brave new marketing paradigm. Instead of offering books for sale the old-fashioned way, they essentially decided to license them. Purchasers were warned of dire … Continue reading
Posted in copyright, online books
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Here, have some more Punch
Punch was a British institution for well over a century. Founded in 1841, it was an irreverent weekly magazine of quips, cartoons, essays, stories and poetry, often on the politics and events of the day. Writers and artists like W. … Continue reading
Posted in online books, serials
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We call dibs! (or, the genius of the Harvard mandate)
The Harvard Arts and Sciences faculty recently approved a resolution giving the University permission to make their scholarly articles available to the world at no charge. Here’s the official press release from Harvard, and here’s the text of the resolution, … Continue reading
Posted in copyright, open access, publishing, sharing
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Improving the millions
Michigan’s announcement earlier this month that they had over one million volumes from their collection digitized was widely hailed online. That million books includes both copyrighted and public domain content. According to Michigan’s John Wilkin, who I talked with shortly … Continue reading
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And now, your turn to have a say in ILS interfaces…
I’ve had my head down for the past couple of weeks for various reasons, but I’m happy to surface again and announce that the ILS discovery interface group that I discussed in my last post has produced a new draft … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, libraries
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Blowing the lid off the ILS (and the providers’ chance to have a say)
It’s now hardly a secret that many large research libraries are increasingly chafing at their traditional integrated library systems (ILSs). Duke University recently announced that they were planning to design an all new, open source ILS, presumably to replace their … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, libraries
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Close readers
There’s been a lot of public fretting lately over the state of reading. People don’t read as much as they once did, we’re told. When it’s pointed out that in fact lots of people are reading online, we’re sometimes told … Continue reading
Posted in open access, reading, sharing
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More on subject maps
The slides for my ALA Midwinter presentation on subject maps (which I described in a previous post) are now online. (Yes, I’m playing around with BePress’s Selected Works.) You can also find links to the presentation, a white paper, and … Continue reading
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Newbery book quick update
Mary now has a list of the apparently unrenewed-copyright Newbery winners, plus a description of The Windy Hill, the Newbery honor book she put online, on her blog.
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New Newbery and Caldecott winners announced; Old Newbery winners go online
One of the highlights of the American Library Association‘s Midwinter meeting (which just concluded here in Philadelphia) is the announcement of the winners of the Newbery Medal, the Caldecott Medal, and ALA’s other book prizes. The Newbery is one of … Continue reading
Posted in awards, copyright, online books
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