Thanks to another very interesting library-related blog, Into the Stacks, I have learned of the existence of CLOCKSS. According to its mission statement:
CLOCKSS is a joint venture between the world’s leading scholarly publishers and research libraries whose mission is to build a sustainable, geographically distributed dark archive with which to ensure the long-term survival of Web-based [...]
Archive for October, 2008
CLOCKSS–A Dark Archive for Web-based Journals
Posted in News, tagged Dark archives, Digital Preservation, Journals, Research libraries on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
They Shoot Cheaters, Don’t They?
Posted in News on October 31, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A post by the Black Belt Librarian alerted me to a story in the Mills College campus newspaper, The Mills Campanil:
Some Mills College students have paid their classmates to complete the required online course, College 005, violating the College Honor Code.
College 005 has fulfilled the Information Literacy/ Information Technology Skill requirements since fall 2004.
A current [...]
Technophobia! I Am All Atwitter
Posted in Libraries, News, tagged Reference, Technology, Twitter on October 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Not too long ago I posted a bit about Twitter. While I am still not sold on it, I have discovered Twitter for Librarians on College at Home. The guide discusses why a library might want to use Twitter but also gives a list of libraries that are using it. I checked out the Nebraska Library [...]
Always a Day Late and a Penny Short
Posted in Libraries, tagged Books, Harvard, Technology on October 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The New York Review of Books published a terrific article called The Library in the New Age back in June. I have only just gotten around to reading it. The author, Robert Darnton, is the director of the University Library at Harvard. He writes:
In fact, the strongest argument for the old-fashioned book is its effectiveness for [...]
