Family Man Librarian

Tonight’s class session focused in large measure on the topic of licensing and the role it plays in selecting and acquiring electronic resources for libraries. As part of that discussion, and as a result also of the assigned readings, I came up with four unofficial principles or truths for licensing in libraries:

Licenses represent a [...]

Am I the only one who finds it incredibly irritating to hear or read about Adam Smith of Google Print, constantly refer to their digitization work as building a ‘card catalog’ of books? HELLO! Card catalog, it isn’t. Please do not refer to it that way, folks. Modern online catalog systems [...]