Category: Libraries/Librarians
Occupy Boston
| November 6, 2011 | Filled under Food, Libraries/Librarians, New England, Society and Culture |
The People’s Library
| October 19, 2011 | Filled under Dartmouth College, Elsewhere, Libraries/Librarians |
Occupy Wall Streethas established a library by you and for you!
Why the Occupy Wall Street Movement Has Libraries
The People’s Library homepage
OWS Library YouTube channel
OWS Library Twitter
email address owspeopleslibrary@gmail.com
Facebook Occupy Wall Street Library
INSIDE Higher Ed Guerrilla Librarians in Our Midst
The People’s Library, Your Library catalog
Occupy Boston has a Library and other library sites are being added to the OWS library website.
And if there is not an Occupy library near you, try submitting a reference question to Radical Reference
You can send book donations to UPS Store Re: Occupy Wall Street, Attn: The People’s Library, 118A Fulton St. #205, New York, NY 10038
News about the OWS library after the encampment was broken down on Tuesday 11/15.
A library research guide on Occupy Wall Street and other Social Movements
The Occupy Dartmouth library
OWS Library Destruction video 11/15/11
The OWS library regrows in Manhattan
Is Babar an orphan?
| September 10, 2011 | Filled under Libraries/Librarians |
I have a category of bookmarks I call Society and Culture. Usually links that get tagged this way for my use are political in nature, or social occurrences that likely would not or could not have occurred in another era. Examples of the former are the recent report from the New York Times titled One Sperm Donor, 150 Offspring, and another NYT’s article The Limping Middle Class.
Today though, I added a bookmark in this group to a story about Babar, that grey elephant I loved so much as a child. In reality, Babar’s reality that is, Barbar is an orphan. And in this time in our world, Barbar and other published works in a certain nether-land are about to become orphan works.
This story is about orphan works in the publishing world. And Barbar is about to become an orphan again, or at least was on the list to become an orphan work. Given that Barbar’s heirs (the author that is) are still very much alive, The Story of Barbar has been pulled from a proposed orphan works list. Is this really fair to authors and publishers? That a work still in-copyright but for which rights holders cannot be found can be declared an orphan work with a limited time frame. Perhaps an author or publisher wishes to remain anonymous or unreachable for personal reasons. Can or should their works really become “public”? Maybe more works should be declared orphan works so that more people can have access to and enjoy them.
Do you ever read privacy or licensing blurbs?
| June 28, 2010 | Filled under Libraries/Librarians |
…this one from an analytics tool for twitter search says that you retain ownership of your content, but give over rights to SNS Analytics http://w.sns.ly/in every way they have imagined, or not thought up yet…GEEZ..
“While you own all of your own User-Generated Content, you hereby grant us, our licensees of the Applications and business partners a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free, sublicensable, perpetual and irrevocable right and license to use and exploit your User-Generated Content for any purpose.
..you hereby grant us, our licensees of the Applications and business partners the right to publicly exhibit, display, reproduce, store, distribute, alter or make other use of videos, photographs, images or likenesses of you, or in which you may be included with others.
..you consent to such uses in **any medium now known or developed in the future**, including photographs, video, slide shows, Internet images or other mediums, means of storage or distribution. You agree that such images and likenesses of you can be used with or without your name. **You give this permission without any limitation whatsoever**”
Waste Reduction
| June 24, 2010 | Filled under Dartmouth College, Libraries/Librarians |
My college is implementing an enhanced recycling plan. All trash cans have been removed from our offices. Many have also been removed from our public areas as well. We are a full service library. We receive a lot of junk mail that needs to be discarded. We have a print station for students and they do not always leave with their printouts.
I wanted to discard a piece of junk mail. After I removed the plastic wrapper I put the paper in one of our old and large paper recycling bins that was hidden and has not been removed….and I’m hoping that we can keep it.
So my next task was to throw out the plastic wrapper. It sort of fit in a small plastic container meant for our real waste. Some of this must be thought out further. What works for an individual office space will quickly spill over in our public areas, even for recyclables.
