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Just in time for the holidays
Free access to my recent article:”Copyright Instruction in LIS Programs: report of a survey of standards in the U.S.A,” written with Michael English, until January 14, 2016: http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1S5sBMYb61gqR.
i don’t but if i did
Each time I’ve stepped in a bookstore recently I have been amazed at the plethora of coloring books on every end-cap. I understand it is the new cool way adults can self medicate, but the ubiquity of the things has now cemented in me the idea that I just don’t like to color. Not like that. But if I did, Unicorns are Jerks and Fat Ladies in Spaaaaace would be the coloring books I would choose. There were on my wishlist after all.
Now that I know I don’t color, I have removed them. You should put them on your wishlist instead.
from the Elvis moviethon
Richard and Shelly told me to draw this.
Richard says my Elvis looks goth.
Salt & Straw Ice cream
Our ice cr
eam flavors basically created themselves based on the amazing produce available in September.
Source: Flavors – Salt & Straw
…they are so far away, so very very far.
I’m reading
I’m reading an article as background research for an article that I am writing where the author is quoting me from an article I have already written. Yes.
from: Kluzek, M. (2014). A practical guide to e-journal and e-book supply – a UK perspective. Interlending & Document Supply, 42(1), 13. doi:10.1108/ILDS-09-2013-0026
Yay! street view photo taken just after mowing
I am stupidly happy that Google street view finally has a new picture of our house, one that doesn’t include the for sale sign and general junkiness, and …it was taken when we were freshly mowed! How awesome is that?!
computer coloring
Concept for the day: Paratext
Paratext is a concept in literary interpretation. The main text of published authors (e.g. the story, non-fiction description, poems, etc.) is often surrounded by other material supplied by editors, printers, and publishers, which is known as the paratext. These added elements form a frame for the main text, and can change the reception of a text or its interpretation by the public.
Items I Love by LeEtta on Etsy
Curated by LeEtta Schmidt on Etsy
Source: Items I Love by LeEtta on Etsy
Wolpertinger
Aging library video collections, copyright, and ?Betamax?
This popped up into my email this week. Seriously.
Sony announces end of production of Betamax cassettes for March next year, 40 years after its introduction and 28 years after losing format war to VHS
Source: Betamax is dead, long live VHS | Technology | The Guardian
And all I could think of was the language from the ‘Limitations on exclusive rights: Reproduction by libraries in archives’ in US Code Title 17 (yeah, I’m quoting copyright law) that says the specific reproduction allowed to libraries for preservation and such if the “existing format in which the work is stored has become obsolete.” ‘Obsolete’ is later defined as the circumstance where “the machine or device necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.”
I realize the announcement was in regard to Betamax cassettes and not the players, but it makes me wonder how long a format clings to life when the regular consuming public leaves it behind, believes it to be dead. If obsolete really boils down to commercially available, then Sony’s announcement is only a depressing assertion that the aging VHS collections of the library world, those that no one is willing or able to up-format commercially, are going to wither away. Can’t we just move on already? I say this, but then I have recently acquired a turntable, cassette, CD player combo, and I know there is a growing nostalgic format movement (at least among my friends).
Reports from the professional LeEMS
LeEtta Schmidt, Copyright Librarian, University of South Florida; Kyle Courtney, Copyright Advisor, Harvard University; and Calvin Manning, Managing Editor, Taylor & Francis discussed whether it is possible to be too open in an OA environment.
Source: Is There Such a Thing as Too Open in Open Access? at the Charleston Conference | Against The Grain
Episode 4 – Parts 1&2: Pirates Are The Best Customers | Copy-Me
“Pirates” are actually positively contributing to markets. Our two part episode on piracy talks about real data and how pirates are the best customers.
Source: Episode 4 – Parts 1&2: Pirates Are The Best Customers | Copy-Me
Goat girl
