Notes on "Building Academic Library 2.0" presented at the Academic Library 2.0 conference, November 2, 2007 by. Meredith Farkas Distance Learning Librarian, Norwich University, Northfield VT. All quotes are approximate, but pretty close.
I was surprised by how much activity there was yesterday over SOPA/PIPA. If you’ve been following along you’ll know that SOPA/PIPA are the House and Senate versions of a bill that has been proposed in order to manage the fact that there are a lot of websites that basically help you get copyrighted content for [...]
Original image thanks to Christopher Dombres and Creative Commons licensing. I oppose SOPA unequivocally; it’s vague, it’s anti-free-speech, and it won’t solve the problem it’s designed to combat. One of the things that is tricky about SOPA–the legislation moving through Congress that threatens to enact stiff penalties for online piracy–is the number of things
This site deals with book censorship attempts which actually resulted in some action, even if it was later reversed. Freedom of speech is for everyone, and includes the freedom to say “I don’t think this belongs in the library,” just as it also includes the freedom to say “sorry, but the library is for everyone [...]
Belarus: Browsing Foreign Websites a MisdemeanorAs stated in an explanatory note published together with the Law, this act was issued to implement the Decree of the Belarusian President of February 1, 2010, on Improvements to the Usage of the National Segment of the Internet. The newly published Law imposes restrictions on visiting and/or using foreign websites by Belarusian citizens and resident
Public Domain Day 2012: Five things we can do in the USt’s New Year’s Day again, and in much of the world, this means another year’s worth of works enter the public domain. That’s a cause for celebration, as Europe and many other countries that have “life+70 years” copyright terms welcome works by James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Jelly Roll Morton, and Elizabeth von Arnim into the public domain. Th
