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photo by YayAdrian Speaker: Brandon Butler (Peter Jaszi was absent) The purpose of copyright is to promote the creation of culture. It is not to ensure that authors get a steady stream of income no matter what, or to pay them back for the hard work they do, or to show our respect for [...]
illustration by wlef70 Speakers: Ros Raeford & Beverly Dowdy Users were unhappy with eresource management, due in part to their ad hoc approach, and they relied on users to notify them when there were access issues. A heavy reliance on email and memory means things slip through the cracks. They were not a train [...] photo by Garrett Coakley Speaker: Steven Sowell His position is new for his library (July 2011), and when Barbara Fister saw the job posting, she lamented that user-centered collection development would relegate librarians to signing licenses and paying invoices, but Sowell doesn’t agree. Values and assumptions: As an academic library, we derive our reason [...] photo by Steven Due to a phone meeting, I spent the first 10 min snarfing down my lunch, so I missed the first presenters. Jason Price: Libraries spend a lot of time trying to get accurate lists of the things we’re supposed to have access to. Publisher lists are marketing lists, and they don’t [...] 2 Apr 2012 |  erl12, mobile apps, NISO, open access, proquest, standards, web-scale discovery service, xISSN |  library |
 photo by Katariina Järvinen speaker: Andrea Resmini He starts with a brief description of the movie The Name of the Rose, which is a bit of a medieval murder mystery involving a monastery library. The “library” is actually a labyrinth, but only in the movie. (The book is a little different.) The letters on [...] |
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