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The Expression of Emotions in 20th Century Books, Alberto Acerbi; Vasileios Lampos; Philip Garnett; R. Alexander Bentley “We report here trends in the usage of mood words, that is, words carrying emotional content, in 20th century English language books, using the data set provided by Google that includes word frequencies in roughly 4% of all …
Intersections of Scholarly Communication and Information Literacy [ALA] – Creating Strategic Collaborations for a Changing Academic Environment. Goal and Structure of the Paper: “In this whitepaper we present a case for exploring and articulating the intersections between scholarly communication and information literacy. We argue that these point to areas of strategic realignment of the roles …
James R. Jacobs – Government Information Librarian – Stanford University: “…[we have created] a petition on the White House’s “We the People” petition site. If you believe in free permanent public access to authentic government information, we hope you’ll sign the petition. And if every one of the @2500 govdoc-l subscribers signs, posts to their …
Understanding Why Users Tag: A Survey of Tagging Motivation Literature and Results from an Empirical Study, Markus Strohmaier, Christian Körner, Roman Kern. Journal of Web Semantics, preprint server. “While recent progress has been achieved in understanding the structure and dynamics of social tagging systems, we know little about the underlying user motivations for tagging, and …
Thomas Johnson, Indexing Linked Bibliographic Data with JSON-LD, BibJSON and Elasticsearch: “Linked Data is a powerful tool for sharing bibliographic metadata. By combining the decentralization of the web with the use of globally defined metadata vocabularies, data from many sources can be treated as a single, aggregated graph. Supporting search across these distributed data sources …
Self-publishing fans and the tech-obsessed keep getting it wrong: Big authors want to be in print — and bookstores, by Laura Miller “Youve probably read that bookstores, like traditional book publishers, are in trouble. They are, especially if theyre big, overextended, relatively impersonal chain stores like Barnes & Noble. But, as the Christian Science Monitor …
GPO 2012 Annual Report: “The Government Printing Office (GPO) is transforming itself from a traditional ink- on-paper operation to a digital information platform. While producing the official printed products of the Government remains an important part of our business, we are using technology to move away from a print-centric business model and toward a content-centric …
CDT: “The Supreme Court issued a decision today that is a major win for everyone who relies on copyright law’s “first sale” doctrine — including the millions of Internet users who have flocked to Craigslist, eBay, and similar online tools to buy, sell, and “freecycle” all kinds of stuff. The case, Kirtsaeng v. Wiley, effectively …
Matt Weaver, Board member, Library Renewal, March 2013: “In order to serve our constituents with electronic content, libraries need to be able to understand how our collections are being used. This paper aims to present library-centered usage data to help libraries make decisions with regards to e-content, and to counter media and industry hype. Much …
Via LLRX.com – A national digital library endowment: How Americas billionaires could be modern Carnegies for real – David H. Rothman discusses how e-books, collections of electrons, not atoms, come with special advantages. They eliminate physical-shelving costs and are especially useful for blind people and others with special needs. Digital technology can also help multiply …
John Palfrey: “Publishers, ebook vendors, and libraries are engaged in a tug of war over the lending of electronic books, according to Library Journals recent ebook survey. This clash inhibits most libraries from fulfilling their important institutional missions to provide access to knowledge and preserve our cultural heritage. In the best case, this tug of …
Libraries, Hackspaces and E-waste: how libraries can be the hub of a young maker revolution: ” Every discussion of libraries in the age of austerity always includes at least one blowhard who opines, “What do we need libraries for? We’ve got the Internet now!” Facepalm. The problem is that Mr. Blowhard has confused a library …
