As I looked through my del.icio.us tags, it occured to me that many recent library initiatives seem to center around being Open.
It could be argued that weblogs are an exercise in openess, and I’ll start by getting the themes for the week off the ground.
Open Access
Open Content
Open Search
Open Source
Open URL
After this, I’m heading down to New Orleans for ALA and will post more news from the land of the Confederacy of Dunces.
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Jay Datema has an MBA from Binghamton University (2007), a Masters in Library and Information Science from Dominican University (1999), and a BA in Literature from Wheaton College (1995).
Reading
Latour, Bruno. Aramis, or, The love of technology. Cambridge Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Quotables
“Since there is no lack of mechanisms for restricting access to content in exchange for new business models, isn't now the time to start setting terms before they are set for both libraries and publishers by larger interests?”
– What SERU Solves
4 March 2008
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