Archive for March 9th, 2007
Are Academic Libraries Ready For Kids Who Read?
Uh oh. Now that we’ve dumped all our books and installed wireless everywhere, it turns out that kids read! Call them the generation born with Harry Potter in their head. Is your library ready and do your librarians have the skills to deal with them? “Kids are buying books in quantities we’ve never seen before,” [...]
Posted: 9 March, 2007 in Books, Student Issues.
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Who Owns Conference Presentations?
Here’s a nice little brouhaha. It seems that the American Political Science Association has appropriated the copyright of papers presented at its annual conference as a condition of presenting. An APSA conference presenter recently found one of her papers for sale on a for-profit site called AllAcademic Inc. and wrote about it in outrage at [...]
Posted: 9 March, 2007 in Copyright, Scholarly Communications.
Comments: 7