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Smells Like Library by Tommy Kovac
On my last indie comics mining trip in Etsy I bought: Smells Like Library v. 2 Funny Library Comics from the tommykovac Etsy store. Afterwards, I carried around the awesome bookmark it came with to remind me to talk about this a little more.
If you didn’t know, librarians are a diverse and often creative group who love creative stuff about libraries (and cats, but besides the point). Tommy Kovac makes and writes wonderful creative stuff about libraries.
Besides comics you can buy through his Etsy store and comics you can read on his site, he also has a blog that Smells Like Library. Go and breathe in.
Fair Use Week 2016
As a special close to the week’s activities, Kyle Courtney released “The origin of U.S. fair use,” an artistic rendering of the codification of fair use into the Copyright Act of 1976… , which readers may explore here.
Source: Fair Use Week 2015 | Harvard OSC
Watch and learn more about the Re:Create Coalition – Re:Create
Save the Date! Fair Use Week 2016: February 22-26, 2016 | Fair Use Week
What is Fair Use Week?Each day teachers teach, students learn, researchers advance knowledge, and consumers access copyrighted information due to copyright limitations and exceptions such as fair use or fair dealing. Fair use and fair dealing are essential limitations and exceptions to copyright, allowing the use of copyrighted materials without permission from the copyright holder under certain circumstances. Fair use and fair dealing are flexible doctrines, allowing copyright to adapt to new technologies. These doctrines facilitate balance in copyright law, promoting further progress and accommodating freedom of speech and expression.While fair use and fair dealing are employed on a daily basis by all users of copyrighted material, Fair Use Week is a time to promote and discuss the opportunities presented, celebrate successful stories and explain the doctrine.While Fair Use Week 2016 will be celebrated February 22–26, we believe that every week is fair use week. Fair Use Week is simply a time to promote and discuss the opportunities presented by fair use and fair dealing, celebrate successful stories, and explain the doctrine.
Source: Save the Date! Fair Use Week 2016: February 22-26, 2016 | Fair Use Week
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’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
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
St. Jerome: Patron Saint of Librarians
Today is the feast day of St. Jerome, patron saint of librarians, translators and encyclopedists. The Preus Library article by Jane Kemp skillfully describes his life and library:
St. Jerome’s personal library was considered to be the most important private collection of the period. He was a great bibliophile, interested in collecting both pagan and Christian books. His learning was considered unequaled during the time he lived since he was an insatiable reader and had a phenomenal memory for what he learned. Finally, his scholarship broke new ground with his translations of the Bible and Biblical commentaries.
What Jane Saw
A historical art exhibit, rendered in colored drawing, capturing the perspective of a famous writer. What more could you want? Source: What Jane Saw
NSA surveillance: how librarians have been on the front line to protect privacy | World news | The Guardian
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‘Librarians were the original search engine’ and long before Edward Snowden, thousands campaigned against the government violating privacy rights
Historypin | Mapping emotions in Victorian London
Mapping Emotions in Victorian London is a crowdsourcing project designed to expand possibilities for research in the humanities. The project has invited anonymous participants to annotate whether passages drawn from novels, published mainly in the Victorian era, represented London places in a fearful, happy, or unemotional manner.
Professional Publication
Are you hankering for a good read on the resource sharing trends in Latin American libraries? Well, look no further; I just got one such article published and I’m giving you (at least the first 50 of you) a free copy:
a visit to Neptune
So hey, I went once again to the International ILLiad Conference in Virginia Beach. I think I have at least two pictures of the giant Neptune statue from every year that I’ve gone. That equals a lot of pictures. This is one of the best though.