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Dean of Library & Distance Education (McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, Illinois)
Dean of Library & Distance Education (McHenry County College, Crystal Lake, Illinois) Responsible for providing leadership, development and implementation of services and programs for the Library, Distance Education, and Academic Computer Labs. ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS: Provide ...
Source: Latest ALA Job Listings - September 2, 2010

Some tips and cautions on using a new Kindle; a gmail shortcut
The photo at the left is by “legendarypoet” and I was struck by what a beautiful b&w shot it is, of a b&w e-reader. Click on the image to see his original, or click on screen name to see his photo page. I spent time yesterday, by request, taking more comparison photos of font and text differences between the Kindle 3 and Kindle 2, and I’ll get some up later on. I’ll touch instead this morning on some subjects that have come up in comment-areas here and in topics being discussed on the various Kindle forums. FULLY CHARGE A NEW KINDLE One thing to know as you open the Kindle pack...
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 2, 2010 Author: Andrys Basten Tags: Andrys Basten Paul Biba ereader kindle Kindle 3

Scribd charging for free ebooks but not paying anything to authors?
This is a part of a post from author Lynn Viehl’s Paperback Writer blog.. It deserves to be read in full, but I must point out that I can’t verify anything that it contains: It’s been brought to my attention that Scribd.com has begun charging people to download my free e-books hosted on their site. To get around my copyright and the free distribution notice I’ve placed in each e-book, they are using an archive subscription scam to make their money (this also neatly avoids them having to pay me any royalties on the profits they make.) Evidently all the money they’ve been raking in from the Go...
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 2, 2010 Author: Paul Biba Tags: Paul Biba Scribd copyright

US told European Union to hide ACTA from the public
This pressure by the US to keep the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement secret is unfathomable, especially in an Obama administration which professes more open government. Campaign contributions at work? From EurActiv: The United States is behind the wall of secrecy surrounding global trade talks to combat counterfeiting, say EU policy sources, who claim that American officials are refusing to let their European counterparts publish the draft agreement online. American officials blocked European attempts to publish the latest draft of the global Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) on an EU website after a Washingto...
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 2, 2010 Author: Paul Biba Tags: Paul Biba copyright ACTA European Union

Playing Hard to Get: Purchasing and Reading E-Books
Last week I sat in on the Springer LibraryZone Virtual eBook webinar and it was a very interesting discussion. Many libraries (especially academic) are investigating and collecting e-books in lieu of some printed text. How much they are collecting and the nature by which they to the selection process seems to vary according each library, their type, size, consortia involvement, usage data, etc. The reasons why and how much they bought all varied but the frustrations, questions, and concerns the faced were very similar and seemed on the minds of every librarian regardless of their library, type, size, consortia inv...
Source: The Krafty Librarian - September 1, 2010 Author: KraftyLibrarian Tags: Electronic Access Journals and Books

1906 Chicago Manual of Style: Free, but not DRM-free
This month’s free e-book from the University of Chicago Press is a replica of the very first, 1906 edition of the Chicago Manual of Style to commemorate the 16th edition of that work. Of course, as with all University of Chicago Press free e-books, this book comes wrapped in Adobe Digital Editions DRM—even though, since it was originally published in 1906, this book is well within the public domain by now. (Oddly, I can’t seem to find any public domain version of it on-line, at least not in Project Gutenberg, Feedbooks, or Manybooks. There is a somewhat rough scan of a 1911 edition on Wikimedia Commons, however.) It�...
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 1, 2010 Author: Chris Meadows Tags: Chris Meadows DRM Free ebooks copyright e-book public domain Chicago Manual of Style free e-book University of Chicago Press

Upcoming Events and Digital Media Roundup
BERKMAN CENTER FOR INTERNET & SOCIETY AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY Upcoming events and digital media // September 1, 2010 [1] [TUESDAY 9/7] Berkman Center Fall Open House (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/events/2010/09/openhouse) [2] [CONFERENCE 9/25] "Media Law in the Digital Age: The Rules Have Changed, Have You?" Conference in Atlanta, GA (http://csjconferences.org/medialaw/) [TUESDAY] BERKMAN CENTER OPEN HOUSE ================================================================================== Tuesday, September 7, 6:00 pm Ropes Gray Room, Pound Hall, Harvard Law School Campus (Map: http://bit.ly/poundmap) Free and Open to...
Source: Berkman Blog - September 1, 2010 Author: ashar

September 2010
Welcome to the Link. Each month the ipl2 brings you some of the best information sites on the Internet. If you have an Internet connection, you can connect with us! The September edition of the Link is filled with birthdays and celebrations throughout the world. So join the party and explore the world through these colorful and informative websites! Suggest a site for the ipl2. Know of a great site, but you cannot find it in the ipl2? Use the form located at http://www.ipl.org/div/contact/ to let us know about good resources to add to our collections. September 1 – Independence Day Uzbekistan Uzbek...
Source: Librarians' Internet Index: New This Week - September 1, 2010 Author: theipl2blog Tags: Drexel University newsletter

How-to for determining if iBooks are DRMed misses Copyright point
Katie Gatto at our sister blog Appletell has made a post explaining how to determine which e-books in your iTunes listing are DRM-protected and which are DRM-free. It is a useful little tutorial for those who are not sure (or, for that matter, bother to purchase iBooks titles in the first place). However, annoyingly, Gatto repeatedly conflates DRM with copyright. She begins the article with “If you want to know which of your ebooks are DRM free and which have been protected by copyright,” then mentions that this process “will let you know if a book has DRM protections or if you’re free to share it with others,” ...
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 1, 2010 Author: Chris Meadows Tags: Apple Chris Meadows DRM copyright e-book ebook iBooks iBookstore AppleTell ITunes

Project Gutenberg: Timeline Events
From the Project Gutenberg News comes this article by Michael Hart: The latest Project Gutenberg Grand Total figures have just passed 37,500 titles this past month and will have 40,000 eBooks during our 40th year celebration, 1,000 a month over 40 years doesn’t sound like much, but we are on track right now to do 5,000 this year. We are currently giving away about 100,000 books a day, just through the one single site: http://gutenberg.org. About 3 million eBooks per month or 36 million per year. In 2000 USB flash drives were just getting started with 8M “IBM Memory Sticks” available for about $60 and also 16M and 32...
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - September 1, 2010 Author: Paul Biba Tags: Paul Biba Project Gutenberg ebook

U.S. Copyright Office Now Has a Toll-Free Number, Includes Option to Speak with an Info Specialist
From the Announcement: (1 page; PDF) Three basic services available by dialing 1-877-476-0778. When you call the U.S. copyright Office on its toll-free line, you will be given three choices. To request publications or get recorded information about copyright, press 1. To obtain technical support for online registration, press 2. To speak to an information specialist about [...]
Source: ResourceShelf - September 1, 2010 Tags: Search News Source File

New Article: "Copyright, Ebooks and the Unpredictable Future"
by Emily Williams From the Article: When paperbacks took off, through lucrative deals with paperback publishers, that became another right to carve out, as did film, and book club, and serials, and audio. Some of these rights — like film – are almost never sold to publishers anymore; others — like paperback — are still included [...]
Source: ResourceShelf - August 31, 2010 Tags: Search News Source File

Citizen Media Law Project & Center for Sustainable Journalism Conference on Media Law in the Digital Age
Citizen Media Law Project and Center for Sustainable Journalism Announce Conference Focused on Media Law in the Digital Age Cambridge, MA – August 31, 2010 – The Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society and the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University are co‐hosting a conference on September 25, 2010 entitled Media Law in the Digital Age: The Rules Have Changed, Have You? in Atlanta, Georgia. Designed for journalists, bloggers, and lawyers who work with media clients, the conference will be an opportunity to learn first‐hand the latest legal developmen...
Source: Berkman Blog - August 31, 2010 Author: syoung Tags: newsroom

Daily Tweets 2010-08-30
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Source: DigitalKoans - August 31, 2010 Author: admin

Libraries: Open books | Editorial
People who know how borrowing books helped to transform their own lives now need to hold their councils to accountNaturally, those who most loved libraries as children are now their most articulate supporters. Some were dismayed by Margaret Hodge's report on public libraries earlier this year, which praised the network as "a triumph of infrastructure and branding". In the coalition era, they may be equally crestfallen at the Future Libraries Programme's promise of "customer service improvement opportunities" in Greater Manchester.Do not be deceived by the familiar jargon. The government's current vision is very different f...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Books - August 30, 2010 Tags: Libraries Books Society Politics UK news The Guardian Editorials Comment is free

Wikipedia and Wikileaks: Jimmy Wales on Some People Not Understanding the Difference
Confusion between one source and another is rather sad but not that infrequent. Also, in the web age the people say the source of an article they’ve read is Google News or Yahoo News not understanding that they aggregate but (in a majority of cases) don’t supply that much original content. Yes, both news engines clearly list the source but apparently some users do not pay attention. Go back ten years and it was the same thing with web browsers and search engines. In other words, “What Search Engine Did You Use?” The answer would be something like, “Netscape.” From an article in The Inde...
Source: ResourceShelf - August 30, 2010 Author: resourceshelf Tags: Uncategorized

Copyrighting Fashion: Who Gains?
Kal Raustiala, a professor at UCLA Law School and the UCLA International Institute, and Chris Sprigman, a professor at the University of Virginia Law School, are experts in counterfeiting and intellectual property. They have been guest-blogging for us about copyright issues. Today, they write about new efforts to extend copyright law to the fashion industry.
Source: Freakonomics Blog - August 30, 2010 Author: By FREAKONOMICS Tags: Uncategorized copyright Fashion

Paul Carr: Why publishers are necessary
Paul Carr’s current “NSFW” column (which is entirely safe for work; NSFW is just the column name) focuses on the recent announcements by authors such as Seth Godin that they are leaving traditional publishing to go it alone. Carr, who is very happy with his publishers (though it’s possible one of his publishers might not be happy with him), devotes a quite lengthy article to rebutting point by point the arguments in favor of ditching publishers. The article is quite long even to summarize, but a few of the points Carr covers include the issues of quality and editing, the added credibility that comes with having had...
Source: TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home - August 30, 2010 Author: Chris Meadows Tags: Chris Meadows epublishing self-publishing e-publishing Paul Carr publishers Seth Godin

Links for 2010-08-27 [del.icio.us]
The SEMANTIC web : A n e w f o r m o f Web c ontent t h a t i s m ea n i n g f u l to c omp u ter s w i l l u n l ea s h a r e v o l u t i o n o f n e w p o s s i b i l i t i e s 24 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN SPECIAL ONLINE ISSUE APRIL 2002 copyright 2002 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, INC. The entertainment system was belting out the Beatles’ “We Can Work It Out” when the phone rang. When Pete answered, his phone turned the sound down by sending a message to all the other local devices that had a volume control. His sister, Lucy, was on the line from the doctor’s office: “Mom needs to see a specialist and then has to have a se...
Source: DigiCMB - August 29, 2010 Author: Guus van den Brekel

The ASCAP "Copyleft" fund-raiser: Campaign of misinformation?
If you've not been following the Creative Commons scene, you might not have heard of the fund-raising campaign by the American Society for Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), started in June 2010.The ASCAP fund-raiser for a legislative campaignFirst, you ought to read their letter for yourself.Their fund-raiser is for a "legislative campaign" to "urge the members of (the U.S.) Congress to support [their] rights". I've read the letter several times. I'm still not sure what rights ASCAP is campaigning for. Or is it for a law against the lawful sharing of works -- even if initiated by the creator?What's really controve...
Source: Rambling Librarian :: Incidental Thoughts of a Singapore Liblogarian - August 29, 2010 Author: Ivan Chew

CARL E-Lert # 389
CARL E-Lert # 389, August 20 2010 from Canadian Association of Research Libraries. Some of this week's items: Long-form census supporters flock to committee; The University of Alberta School of Library and Information Studies welcomes Mr. Ernie Ingles as Director; Scholars Test Web Alternative to Peer Review; Looming copyright crackdown could stifle Internet users, researchers, academics say; Oracle's Android lawsuit: A Pandora's box of serious evils
Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog - August 28, 2010

Daily Tweets 2010-08-27
Czech copyright Bill Undercuts Copyleft, Artists http://icio.us/ocdsgm # Japan’s National Diet Library Collaborating with Library of Congress on Digitization of Prewar Japanese Resources http://icio.us/v1xped # More on Mendeley and Repositories http://icio.us/vrqihp # Provider-Neutral Ebook Records, Help! http://icio.us/ejoe5v # Dear JSTOR: What Went Wrong? http://icio.us/zs0ftt # New: National Library of Poland Puts 20 Digital Collections Online http://icio.us/4v0ytx # Elsevier to Launch Soon a New Science Platform http://icio.us/1pynol # Southern African Music Collection Society Fighting Attempt to Put Public Domain Wo...
Source: DigitalKoans - August 28, 2010 Author: admin

Brain Candy: Simon Winder on Penguin's Great Ideas series
A publishing phenomenon – with Hazlitt and Ruskin selling tens of thousands – but also a phallocentric disgrace? Simon Winder talks about the end of Great Ideas - and invites readers to submit their suggestions of the egregious absencesGlazed, shaky, politically and philosophically confused, I have just finished editing the 100th and last Penguin Great Ideas title. Why we should stop the series at this specific, wholly arbitrary number is the sort of issue that would have delighted some of the more annoying authors in the series but, setting that aside, we have now published five sets of 20 and it is time to stop and d...
Source: Guardian Unlimited Books - August 27, 2010 Tags: Books Culture Penguin George Orwell The Guardian Features

"The Pre-History of Fair Use"
Matthew Sag has self-archived "The Pre-History of Fair Use" in SSRN. Here's an excerpt: This article reconsiders the history of copyright’s pivotal fair use doctrine. The history of fair use does not in fact begin with early American cases such as Folsom v. Marsh in 1841, as most accounts assume—the complete history of the fair use doctrine begins with over a century of copyright litigation in the English courts. Reviewing this "pre-history" of the American fair use doctrine leads to three significant conclusions. The first is that copyright and fair use evolved together. Virtually from...
Source: DigitalKoans - August 27, 2010 Author: admin

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