Archive for January 1st, 2008
Welcome to the Public Domain
Happy new year! Here are some authors whose works are back in the public domain: J. M. Barrie, Jean de Brunhoff, H. P. Lovecraft, Maurice Ravel, and Edith Wharton. (If you live in Canada, you get even more.) Thanks to John Mark Ockerbloom and to BoingBoing for the reminder that with every new year, some [...]
Posted: 1 January, 2008 in Copyright.
Tags: , public domain
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Make 2008 Your Year For Trend Watching
Librarians need to pay more attention to important societal, cultural and business trends. That was the core premise of the Soaring to Excellence (STE) program in which I participated back on October 26, 2007. If you unfamiliar with STE it is a professional development teleconference that library workers can join both over the web and [...]
Posted: 1 January, 2008 in Innovation, Professional Development.
Tags: soaring_to_excellence, trendspotting, virtual_worlds
Comments: 4