From a “Ghost Library” to a “Window on the Big World”: The Story of Te Matapihi ki te Ao Nui, Wellington Central Library
What do you do when the building standards governing the safety of your workplace are deemed inadequate?
Shared Infrastructure and the Recent Downtime at the University of Michigan
When the University of Michigan was forced to disconnect from the internet last week, it resulted in disruptions to several key services it provides to the broader research community, such as the University of Michigan Press, HathiTrust, and ICPSR. What can we learn from this experience?
Appeals Court Rules That Library of Congress Can No Longer Require Deposit of Published Works
An appeals court has ruled that it is unconstitutional for the government to require deposit of published works in the Library of Congress
Fashionable Goodness: Authors’ Choices in Publication
Authors can choose from a number of publication options. What drives an author to self-publish their book? What do they give up when they do?
Critical Archives
Studying the way we’ve studied the past is mutual work. Archivists and librarians, and scholars using their collections, have each been producing critical archives scholarship that too often remains within disciplinary and professional siloes.
Bambi for the Serious Reader
The Disney film may be considered a classic, but Princeton University Press has more successfully delivered Felix Salton’s original message.
Thoreau and the Office Cubicle
Fretting over work even as you head out on vacation? A new book on Henry David Thoreau may cause you to rethink employment priorities.
The Great Libraries of China
An architectural tour of the great libraries of China turns up a spectacular place to read a book on the beach.
Reading the Movie
Looking for a good summer read? Those with a love for good mysteries and classic films have a treat in store!
Leadership and Accountability Matter for a Sustainable Publishing Ecosystem
How can we provide both leadership and accountability across the publishing ecosystem toward the Sustainable Development Goals?
Who Is Going to Make Money from Artificial Intelligence in Scholarly Communications?
The current uproar over artificial intelligence does not show us what the future of AI will look like, but rather how a human population falls into predictable patterns as it contemplates any new development: we are observing not AI but ourselves observing AI.
Guest Post — Students Need to Learn How to Read Scholarly Articles: Here’s How Technology Can Help
A new collaboration between JSTOR and the social annotation tool Hypothesis has seen more instructional uses of content and greater engagement among students with the material.
Guest Post — Funding Open Access Book Publishing: A Different Approach
New models are emerging for funding open access, which may serve to alleviate one of the publishing industry’s most problematic practices: Levying book processing charges on authors.
Why Does the U.S. Copyright Office Require Libraries to Lie to Users about Their Fair Use Rights? They Won’t Say.
The copyright warning notice prescribed by the US Copyright Office misleads library patrons about their fair use rights, and must change.
Guest Post — Making Research Accessible: The arXiv Accessibility Forum Moved the Action Upstream
Shamsi Brinn (UX Manager at arXiv) and Bill Kasdorf (Principal of Kasdorf & Associates, LLC) discuss the recent Accessibility Forum hosted by arXiv. Over 2,000 people registered for the Forum; over 350 attended the live event; and hundreds more are accessing the recently published videos.