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Mises Economics Blog: Mises Institute Print on DemandA libertarian institute offering dozens of out of print books for sale through Lulu. This is just how academia and libraries should be embracing print on demand technology.
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Mises Institute Print on Demand’s Storefront – Lulu.comThe list of books they are publishing. Worth noting, is that it kind of makes sense that libertarians are the ones who thought to embrace a free and open marketplace like Lulu. Librarians as supporters of free and open marketplaces of ideas should take note.
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Talis Platform news“Welcome to the first issue of Talis Platform News, a new way for you to find out how we are continuing to develop the Talis Platform, and to share your own stories on putting it to use in powering the Web applications that matter to you.”
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Submitting Written Testimony: Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control (Library of Congress)“The Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control wants to know the viewpoints of all parties interested in this topic… written testimony will be accepted by the Working Group until July 31st, 2007.”
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Highly recommended. I think a lot of Web 2.0 types in the profession argue for much the same, only expanded to include contributions from our patrons.
Month: July 2007
links for 2007-07-27
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This is a huge opportunity for libraries to integrate our services into course management: “Developers – Now is the time to build education applications on Facebook Platform! Facebook will be phasing out its Courses feature in early August, and we wanted to make sure you were the first to know.”
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This book seems to present strategies based on a well developed understanding of how the Internet is changing the job market. It also has a fun “Online Identity Calculator” that produces a Google Quotient (GQ).
links for 2007-07-26
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Loose Cannon Librarian » printed with permission…
About Danbury and LibraryThing for Libraries, from the post – “I wrote a sidebar to John Blyberg’s must-read article on open APIs (go, now, read it)… I asked for and received permission to post the unedited version here:”
links for 2007-07-25
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Always Pushing Information – 7/15/2007 – netConnect
“John Blyberg advocates for open APIs between libraries and vendors to speed innovation”
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WorldCat Local pilot announcement [OCLC]
Saving some older links.
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A Recipe for OpenID-Enabling Your Site
From the site “This is a step-by-step tutorial guide for implementing OpenID consumer-side support with a web site that already has users with accounts.”
links for 2007-07-24
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I am interested to see how this spreads. Could libraries use this method? From the site: “Have you ever wondered what a group of highly talented and motivated people could accomplish in a weekend? Could they start a company from concept to completion?”
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Startup Weekend BoulderBlog for the first Startup Weekend.
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vosnap :: coming soonThe product/company birthed at Startup Weekend: “VoSnap is a social voting tool that reduces time wasted on decision-making, makes sure everyone in the group has a voice, and gives instant feedback on fun or serious decisions.”