There’s a very interesting conference starting today and continuing through the weekend at New York University on “The Comedies of Fair Use.” Not only does it feature Lawrence Lessig and Siva Vaidhyanathan, but Art Spiegelman, Jonathan Lethem, and lots of other interesting people will be there. A full schedule is available here. If you’re in [...]

How many ACRL members share this sentiment? I raise this question because of a comment submitted to a previous post about the ACRL virtual conference, asking if any thought has been given to making the ACRL Virtual Conference a free event. And that’s a good point to raise. After all, there are a fair number [...]

Several days ago ACRLog posted a story about charges of harassment filed against a reference librarian named Scott Savage over controversial books he suggested for the institution’s common book reading experience for freshman. On Friday, April 21 The Columbus Dispatch reported that OSU investigator T. Glenn Hill found that the charges of harassment had no [...]

Carla Yanni argues in the current issue of the Chron that “all campuses need public places.” in her words: In addition to inviting undergraduates to public lectures and including them in research projects, another effective way to connect faculty members and students would be to make the physical environment more conducive to informal gathering. Loitering [...]

I was very interested to read the article in this week’s CHE on electronic theses and dissertations (subscription required) and the brave new world of copyright issues their production has engendered. The questions of: 1) how and when one would seek permission for the use of images, video, and sound used in a multimedia dissertation; [...]