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Monthly Archives: July 2006

Traditional Publishing and the Web

Thursday, July 27, 2006

Two interesting pieces recently came across my aggregator on the topic of the web’s impact on traditional publishing.
The first is an article in the Chronicle, “Book 2.0,” about an experimental book format that allows readers to comment on the original text and the author to respond. The book under discussion, GAM3R 7H30RY by [...]

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NPR Story on MySpace

Thursday, July 27, 2006

A short piece on All Things Considered reveals that mother and daughter have very different perspectives on the site, online privacy, and the nature of the web.

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Ab’s Laws of Electronic Resource Management

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Since I am moving on from electronic resource management, I thought it would be a good time to share what I’ve learned over the past six years.
1. The more usage a particular e-journal gets, the greater the chance that the holdings statement will be incorrect.
Corollary: Journals used by faculty/board members on the library’s advisory committee [...]

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Siva Vaidhyanathan on Google and Copyright

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

On June 15, I heard Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan give the keynote address at the 2006 SUNYLA conference. (Vaidhyanathan is a professor of communications at NYU; you can read more about him, and hear the correct pronunciation of his name, at his blog, sivacracy.net.) He discussed Google’s Book Search initiative and its implications for [...]

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