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Mises Economics Blog: Mises Institute Print on DemandA libertarian institute offering dozens of out of print books for sale through Lulu. This is just how academia and libraries should be embracing print on demand technology.
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Mises Institute Print on Demand’s Storefront – Lulu.comThe list of books they are publishing. Worth noting, is that it kind of makes sense that libertarians are the ones who thought to embrace a free and open marketplace like Lulu. Librarians as supporters of free and open marketplaces of ideas should take note.
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Talis Platform news“Welcome to the first issue of Talis Platform News, a new way for you to find out how we are continuing to develop the Talis Platform, and to share your own stories on putting it to use in powering the Web applications that matter to you.”
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Submitting Written Testimony: Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (Library of Congress)“The Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control wants to know the viewpoints of all parties interested in this topic… written testimony will be accepted by the Working Group until July 31st, 2007.”
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Highly recommended. I think a lot of Web 2.0 types in the profession argue for much the same, only expanded to include contributions from our patrons.
Category: ethics
links for 2007-07-27
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This is a huge opportunity for libraries to integrate our services into course management: “Developers – Now is the time to build education applications on Facebook Platform! Facebook will be phasing out its Courses feature in early August, and we wanted to make sure you were the first to know.”
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This book seems to present strategies based on a well developed understanding of how the Internet is changing the job market. It also has a fun “Online Identity Calculator” that produces a Google Quotient (GQ).
links for 2007-07-25
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Always Pushing Information – 7/15/2007 – netConnect
“John Blyberg advocates for open APIs between libraries and vendors to speed innovation”
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WorldCat Local pilot announcement [OCLC]
Saving some older links.
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A Recipe for OpenID-Enabling Your Site
From the site “This is a step-by-step tutorial guide for implementing OpenID consumer-side support with a web site that already has users with accounts.”
links for 2007-07-20
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Section on useing XFN, hCard, etc. to create a portable social network. I wrote about this idea over a year ago after a discussion we had at BarCampRDU 2006.
links for 2007-07-18
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Open Library says “Imagine a library that collected all the world’s information about all the world’s books and made it available for everyone to view and update. We’re building that library.” Update: Things are evolving really fast. These are probably the most revolutionary times for library catalogs since they first went electronic. This is a great example of the changes afoot. From the site:
Second, it must be grandly comprehensive. It would take catalog entries from every library and publisher and random Internet user who is willing to donate them. It would link to places where each book could be bought, borrowed, or downloaded. It would collect reviews and references and discussions and every other piece of data about the book it could get its hands on.
But most importantly, such a library must be fully open. Not simply “free to the people,” as the grand banner across the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh proclaims, but a product of the people: letting them create and curate its catalog, contribute to its content, participate in its governance, and have full, free access to its data.
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Brushing up on my OpenID literature for an article I am writing.