Ran across this great essay by Jonathan Letham. His basic premise is that copyright has strangled creativity and the pursuit of learning. He talks a great deal about the creative commons and the pursuit of the gift economy. It is worth the investment of time to read this.
PRESS Release
DATE: 5/14/07
FROM: Crawford County Federated Library System
TO: Members of the media
CONTACT:John Brice System Administrator jbrice@ccfls.org
SUBJECT:Koha User Group Organizational Meeting
An organizational meeting of users of the Koha Integrated Library System (ILS) will be held during the American Library Association Convention in Washington D.C. The meeting will be held June 24, 2007 at […]
Have you ever purchased a book and wondered if you could find it cheaper somewhere else? I know I have. Well thanks to the “bots” on the Internet you can now price shop for both new and used books at a site called Booksprice.com. Both new and used books can be looked […]
Looking for new things to blog I typed “Meadville” in the Google news web page and found an interesting article about Channellock in the Mid County Chronicle in Nederland, Texas.
Here is the article.
When we started our new web site the idea was that certain people, me included, would write and blog about our favorite articles. Since I am the Director of the library, I thought I would blog about current trends and ideas in the library universe. Obviously what I planned to do has not […]
John J. Brice, III
Executive Director
Meadville Public Library