Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web New York Times report on research libraries and digital collections.

A new video – Information R/evolution from Michael Wesch, who did The Machine Is Us/ing Us

Article in today’s New York Times: Library of Congress Advances 2 Digital Projects Abroad

There’s a new set of photos from today’s workshop–Licensing Electronic Resources: An Introduction–led by our Associate Director Ruth Dukelow. Click here to view the photos.

Photos from MLC’s Annual Meeting have been posted to our account on Flickr. Click here to view them.

Photos from the September 21 program led by Deberah England have been posted to MLC’s Flickr account. See the new set here.

MHSLA, the Michigan Health Sciences Libraries Association is having their annual conference in Bay City at the Doubletree Hotel, from September 26-28. I had the pleasure of working at the MLC table on Thursday. And enjoyed meeting with many of our MLC members. Well, while enjoying my wonderful taco bar lunch we were treated to …Read more »

The New York Times has an interesting article today about eBooks and the new “Kindle” reader coming from Amazon. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/technology/06amazon.html

College students always start at Google when they have an assignment to do, right? They ignore all those journals and databases colleges and universities spend so much money for, right? That seems to be the conventional wisdom these days anyway. But First Monday has a paper in its current edition that disputes that bit of …Read more »

For several years, INCOLSA, the Indiana Cooperative Library Services Authority, has run a shared integrated library system for about 30 libraries. This week they announced that they are migrating from SirsiDynix to Koha ZOOM, an open-source ILS. I’ve started a conversation with INCOLSA’s executive director about their decision and the benefits they expect to see …Read more »