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Auckland Libraries - http://www.aucklandlibraries.govt.nz/EN...
This is run on sharepoint, according to the site "Top Sharepoint Sites"
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Glasgow Life - http://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/Pages...
Organization that uses Sharepoint for pages about libraries and museums.
- Daniel Cornwall
SharePoint Customer Success Stories - http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us...
Examples of organizations that have used Sharepoint to develop internet sites.
- Daniel Cornwall
SharePoint 2010: SharePoint on the Internet and in the Intranet--Different Environments, Similar Needs - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us...
SharePoint 2010: SharePoint on the Internet and in the Intranet--Different Environments, Similar Needs
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Microsoft SharePoint Help, Tips and Tricks, Examples - http://www.mssharepointtips.com/index...
Community driven help for Sharepoint issues.
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eXtension - General Cooperative Extension Service. - http://www.extension.org/
Resources including webinars and FAQs on community, disaster issues, energy, family, farm, pest management and youth.
- Daniel Cornwall
Institutional Repository Bibliography - http://digital-scholarship.org/irb...
Presents selected English Language articles, books, technical reports and other scholarly textual sources that are useful in understanding institutional repositories.
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What Are Your Photography Goals for 2009? - http://thomashawk.com/2008...
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"My own long-term goal is to publish at least 1,000,000 photographs before I die." Good long term goal. My husband is a subway photographer and has nearly 18,000 photos of trains only on his website as accumulated over the last few years. I wonder if he'll get even close to 100k!
- Tamar Weinberg
Simple, to start up again. I've not had time to do anything since getting my new job in July. :-(
- Kol Tregaskes
I'd like to do at least one time lapse, light painting, and stop motion project. Besides the goals of getting the 5dmkII and 100-400L
- Andrew Smith
@Tamar, that's a lot of trains. I like the size of that collection! And I don't even have 500 mannequins published yet.
- Thomas Hawk
take more pics
- dedrick
Ummm I want to figure out how to use a point & click
- sofarsoShawn <Jell-O>
My only photography goal is to start taking pictures again. I stopped for some reason as I started getting distracted by my other interests. :(
- James (@willia4)
I commented on Marc's post as well: http://www.silberstudios.com/blog...
- Justin Korn
Just to get better. I hope I'll have more time taking shots too.
- Chris Nixon
GET a real camera without my husband freaking out about the price tag!, learn how to use it, post fabulous photos on Flickr! which dump over here
- Susan Beebe
Sell my Leica Digilux 3, and just get the most out of my new Leica D-Lux 4 while documenting the first year of my daughter.
- ɯɥøq sɐɯoɥʇ
Take tons of pictures of my kids and go to a photography show of some kind
- Shevonne
to finally pursue my lifelong dream of taking up photography lol
- Cardeen winedrunk
I want to break into the pornography industry ~ hear it's a big money maker!
- sofarsoShawn <Jell-O>
To try and round up some freelance work and get more involved in the local gallery scene...and always looking to refine, re-invent, and learn.
- Susan Dennis
Take less pictures, but with higher attention to quality.
- David Cook
My two photography goals for 2009 are 1) Actually learn the non-auto functions of my camera besides manual focus and "No! Don't Flash at distant things" and 2) Get better at low light and lunar photography.
- Daniel Cornwall
To be better than I was a year before, to hopefully have a proper dSLR, and to have made some spending money from my photos. And to have fun.
- Grant Bierman
To have a camera I could shoot a gnat from 100 yards with. and to take some classes so that I can use it. Ok, 50 yards...
- InPerpetualMotion(Gina k)
take 4x the photos I took in 2008 and publish once a week to flickr
- Mark Interrante
To take enough photos in 2009 that I fill all the hard drives of my new Drobo.
- Bob Gannon
learn what ISO means
- Michael W. May
from twhirl
I have a new camera, so first learn how to use it properly. After that, remember to use it regularly and not just grab my iPhone.
- Rochelle
I want to shoot more with Thomas Hawk. I also want to edit more of my photos.
- Robert Scoble
Get geared up with my 5D, learn some good lighting skills and start taking my food pics to build my portfolio.
- Derrick
Build a Macro Studio and take better food photos for blog. Meet with the local photographer photo-walks. Play with my new UV filter.
- Heidi Jeffers Thibodeau
Getting a quality camera and developing my skill is one of my retirerment plans; a don't think that will happen in 2009.
- Robert Hafer
To meet more photographers in real life and go on adventures with them.
- Trey Ratcliff
Get more out of my 5D...sometimes I feel I took better pics w/ my old 350D..take a look http://www.flickr.com/photos...
- Vincenzo Cosenza
I want to continue to get better with my camera. I've only been shooting really for a little over a year so I'm still learning. I also want to shoot some studio sessions as that is something very new and challenging for me.
- C.C. Chapman
Thanks to this thread, I took out my Canon Powershot S1 manual (three years old) and figured out how to 1) Take pictures in sepia, 2) Successfuly work the delay time to take a photo of myself and 3) Use the successive photo feature. I used the last on my cat, but I couldn't get him to move, so not worthwhile to see. I look forward to trying a few different things a month and seeing what happens. Thanks for starting this thread!
- Daniel Cornwall
DON’T KEEP THE PUBLIC GUESSING: BEST PRACTICES IN NOTICE OF COPYRIGHT AND TERMS & CONDITIONS OF USE FOR GOVERNMENT WEB SITE CONTENT - http://www.cendi.gov/publica...
2004 Discussion of how to give public clear notice on the copyright status (or lack thereof) on federal websites.
- Daniel Cornwall
TEI: Text Encoding Initiative - http://www.tei-c.org/index.xml
Collectively develops and maintains a standard for the representation of texts in digital form.
- Daniel Cornwall
Smolski Images - Digital Commons - http://digitalcommons.ric.edu/smolski...
Example of an image collection using Digital Commons. Note the availability of different photo sizes.
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Digital Commons by BEpress - http://www.bepress.com/ir...
FAQs about institutional repository hosted solution.
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Preservation and Archiving - Solution Communities - DuraSpace Wiki - https://wiki.duraspace.org/display...
"The mission of the DuraSpace Preservation and Archiving Solution Community is to establish the community framework to develop and support the preservation needs of the users of repository platforms including scientists, scholars, archivists, librarians, educators, and managers. The scope of the community's effort will be the complete life cycle of the digital object, independent of format, structure, or content." - Contains links to resources including Digital Preservation policies.
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Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript - http://building-iphone-apps.labs.oreilly.com/
Focuses on creating iPhone friendly websites.
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WebJunction - Digitization & Preservation - http://www.webjunction.org/process...
Resources related to the digitization and preservation of library materials.
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National Digital Stewardship Alliance - Digital Preservation (Library of Congress) - http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa...
An outgrowth of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) is a collaborative effort among government agencies, educational institutions, non-profit organizations and businesses to preserve a distributed national digital collection for the benefit of citizens now and in the future.
- Daniel Cornwall
WebJunction - Digitization & Preservation - http://www.webjunction.org/process...
Resources related to the digitization and preservation of library materials.
- Daniel Cornwall
National Digital Stewardship Alliance - Digital Preservation (Library of Congress) - http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ndsa...
An outgrowth of the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP), the National Digital Stewardship Alliance (NDSA) is a collaborative effort among government agencies, educational institutions, non-profit organizations and businesses to preserve a distributed national digital collection for the benefit of citizens now and in the future.
- Daniel Cornwall
Duke Digital Collections - http://library.duke.edu/digital...
Includes Adviews
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Duke Digital Collections - http://library.duke.edu/digital...
Includes Adviews
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Moonlight Mile 1 1/3 - http://www.youtube.com/watch...
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These videos are in Japanese with Spanish subtitles. Even only getting 60-85% of what's being said, it's quite and interesting show. It's about a future where the Earth is powered by moon-based fusion reactors.
- Daniel Cornwall
Is on his stationary bike watching a cruise ship go by.
Now I have this image of being on a stationary cruise ship watching bikes go by...which, come to think of it, has probably happened in Juneau in years past.
- Walt Crawford
Probably has happened. I find that by focusing hard on a passing cruiseship, I can fool myself into thinking the ship is stationary and the mountains are sliding by it. Only lasts a second or two, but pretty wild.
- Daniel Cornwall
When I started? No. By the time I finished: yes. :)
- holly #ravingfangirl
from iPhone
Yes, though I've been working at the same place since I was an undergrad. This is not normal.
- EBJT
not at all!
- jambina
nope
- Hedgehog
I feel like I asked this before, but there you go.
- Derrick
Heck no.
- laura x
Now that it's down to the wire, I'm in library school overload. In a good way, I think. Maybe I'm just impatient? I don't know why I'm finding myself curious about how other people got to the profession; I think there are so many varied areas one could pursue. Hrm.
- Derrick
I didn't have a plan, so no. :-) (also, http://ff.im/j4ycB )
- lris
Not exactly the same thing. Knew I had an interest in archives, though.
- Subtly LB
Yes. Well, not this specific branch library and subject area, but yes. (And I think you have asked it before, unless someone else did, but so what? :-) ) But then I've only been out of libschool 4-5 years.
- Deborah Fitchett
Well, damn, Iris. I swear FF search never works for me. Thanks. ;)
- Derrick
Just wait till you're a librarian. All search boxes work for you then. :-)
- lris
(Also, I think it's great to ask again, anyway, since we've got new people here since then.)
- lris
Yay!
- Derrick
I think that for me there's also this sense of rambling about and being aimless. When I think about the options that are available to me via lib. school, I get excited. If anything, I'm kicking myself for taking so long to get to this place.
- Derrick
No. I thought I would be a public librarian. I didn't want to teach :)
- marthalib
Also, I still kick myself regularly for not figuring out this calling 10 or 15 years earlier.
- marthalib
Seems like there's a significant number of librarians that come to the profession after having done something else. Hrm.
- Derrick
Why is that martha? (Derrick both my library school & career experience thus far is something I'm still trying to comprehend so I'm not much help with your question). I'm a career jumper too.
- Nikki D.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha, uh, no.
- Andy
Ditto what Andy said. I am doing some of what I thought I would be doing, but I never worked in libraries prior to library school so I had a lot of misconceptions about how things worked in libraries
- John: Clockwork Librarian
Nikki, I didn't really have a career before this, I just had a series of jobs. I love librarianship so much I can't believe I wasn't doing it all along. I had some other life things to sort out, I suppose.
- marthalib
John: I'm not laughing because of misconceptions, I'm laughing because I'm totally not a law librarian or academic librarian, which is what I thought I would end up doing. But your points are still valid. =D
- Andy
Sorry, the misconceptions part of my comment are only for my own path to librarianship; I figured you were laughing because you are doing something completely different from what you thought/expected
- John: Clockwork Librarian
Nope.
- ωαřмaiden ☆Team O'Otto☆
Nope. Of course, I went to library school not really having a plan or knowing a ton about the profession - just going on instinct that it was the right path for me. Sometimes feel
- Dana Longley
Exactly where I wanted to be, but I had the opposite experience from Dana. I started MLIS program after several years working in libraries and figuring out what I wanted to do.
- Jason P
I really, really hoped I would.
- Anne Graham
Joan, I'm looking at working with tech and instruction in academic libraries. I'm also really interesting in privacy, ethics, and intellectual freedom.
- Derrick
Not at all. I have a computing background so I kinda thought I'd end up working for a vendor or something on development. Academic libraries weren't on my radar at all. Then I got recruited (thanks, Larry!) to do a practicum placement at the Physical Science & Engineering Library at McGill (now Schulich Library) and that opened my eyes. It was a great place to work and completely opened my eyes to the academic option.
- John Dupuis
More or less. Same place and role I had in mind, too.
- Julian
Yes, but I was already working in this library when I started and while I completed my program.
- Rachel Walden
Derrick, it sounds like your interests align similarly to mine; I was a tech/instruction librarian for several years. Entered library school thinking I wanted to do information architecture, but soon found I liked the service side a ton, too. Wouldn't have anticipated exactly the job I got, post-library-school, but it wasn't a big surprise. The job I have now is _exactly_ where I wanted to be when I started _law_ school - lucked out BIG time!
- N. Ansi
For the most part, no. But I split my library work between reference classes and the technology available in the mid 1990s, so I'm not entirely surprised by my current duties.
- Daniel Cornwall
Had my nook at my physical therapy appointment. My PT, a well-spoken, educated woman, had no reference point for what it was. She also had never heard of the iPad. I love that she had no idea what I was talking about & put library chicken little rantings in perspectives.
When I explained what it was, she really wasn't much impressed. I think she is more typical than we realize.
- Rochelle Rochelle
I was very dismissive of ereaders until last month when I found I needed one (well, would be able to put one to great utility). I think you're right Rochelle, I think most of the world, right now, either doesn't know anything about ereaders or doesn't think much of them.
- John: Clockwork Librarian
I think the great majority of adults just don't read, and adding a newfangled thingerwhoosit that lets people read won't impress them any more or less.
- Miriella
Miriella: What is that thought based on? The majority of adults use libraries, and the majority of adults buy books (apparently). Are there really tens of millions of people using books as doorstops? I keep hearing this "most folks don't read," and I don't buy it. (/threadjack) (As for ereaders: I do believe that, for most of us, they're still a solution to a problem we don't have.)
- Walt Crawford
Er... I'd like recent data references for "The majority of adults use libraries, and the majority of adults buy books (apparently)" -- not for nuffink, but that may not be quite accurate (at least for the libraries assertion)
- awd
UK visits are down, but loans slightly up. CIPFA early analysis.
- Pete
Using my supersecret searching skillz, looking for a *very* current reference (for the libraries assertion only): http://www.ala.org/ala...
- Walt Crawford
Something that always bothers me about these type of surveys is that none of them try to quantify if people are actually READING the books they check out. I know that I've checked out material only to return it to the library unread.
- John: Clockwork Librarian
Well...circulation is up, in many cases a lot--and most public libraries are pretty busy. The folks I hike with all seem to assume public library use as a norm. (Is there some reason so many academic librarians seem to doubt that public libraries are actually being used? That's a serious question: It strikes me as odd.)
- Walt Crawford
Walt, I'm not sure the people you hike with are necessarily representative of a cross section of the American public. I work in a well-used public library in a small town, but I can tell you that there are a lot of adults here who do not use the library, and there are some who use it only for movies. I'm not going to make a statistical guess about numbers, but there *are* a significant number of adults who don't read books.
- laura x
Beyond that, I concede. When asked for a recent data reference, I provide one...and am met with "wishful thinking" and "people may not be READING those books." So there's no point in linking to actual circulation stats, is there?
- Walt Crawford
What is this iPad thingy, anyway?
- Joe
I agree with Dorothea. Whenever someone finds out I work at the library I hear, "Oh, I LOVE the library!" It becomes pretty clear that it's usually a guilt-based response followed by, "but I wish I had more time to read," or "really? you can check out movies?" or "I didn't know you had a second floor," or something else to indicate that the person loves the idea of the library.
- Rochelle Rochelle
Also, our hot stats are DVDs and books on CD.
- Rochelle Rochelle
Walt, my comment comes more out of my other life (as an editor and publisher) where publishers want to claim that more people are reading books because they're selling more books without any proof that books sold = books read. I looked into our local public system (where I also work) and there are 744,533 users in the system and 388,009 of them had activity on their account over the...
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- John: Clockwork Librarian
And yes, activity could be anything from checkout, checkin, fines, registration, etc. I was doing a quick and dirty look and didn't try to differentiate.
- John: Clockwork Librarian
Gotcha. John, your numbers sound reasonably typical. I must admit, I'm generally skeptical of the notion that people buy books (or check them out) with no intention of reading them--unless they're buying by the yard at a thrift store for decorating purposes. Laura, Dorothea: I don't doubt that "a lot of adults" don't use the library--but what I responded to was a claim that "the great majority" of adults don't read.
- Walt Crawford
I also find this frustrating because it seems so common for librarians, esp. academic librarians, to deny or attempt to undermine any good news about public library use--I do believe librarianship is the most self-destructive profession around. That saddens me.
- Walt Crawford
We should form a committee to research that :)
- John: Clockwork Librarian
Seriously: ALA does a pretty good job of tracking not only surveys but actual statistical reports, and they're pretty consistent. At some point, wouldn't it make sense to stress the positive (and the need for *more funding* to handle all that activity), instead of trying to undermine the figures? I know I'm a Pollyanna, but...I just don't get this.
- Walt Crawford
Walt, I know by our own stats that we are doing great in all areas, but it's not due to most of our residents using the library. We have no limits on how many items people can check out, and it's not uncommon for folks to have out 20-30 items at a time. We have power users and we appreciate them. A Harris poll with a sample of 1045 people does not make me happy dance, though.
- Rochelle Rochelle
Okay. In 2009, our county had 21,529 adult residents, according to US Census estimates. At present, we have 14,262 adult library card holders, which sounds pretty good. Of that number, however, only 4133 show any activity in 2010. Again, I haven't broken this down by what kind of media they are checking out, but I would guess what Rochelle says is true: we have a lot of power users....
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- laura x
This doesn't speak to Miriella's original objections *at all*, but here's the info from my local public, because now I'm more interested in that than in the original discussion. I don't know that it's representative of any larger whole, because PPLD is AWESOME (even if I did have to IM, get referred to the assistant director, and then call to get this info, which I don't think you can...
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- Marianne
"But I don't think they've EVER been popular with everyone, and I think that's okay." I have no disagreement whatsoever with that statement.
- Walt Crawford
Maybe--if only the second-guessing/undermining wasn't so consistently in the "If it's good news, it's probably wrong/wishful thinking" direction. And yes, if 86% of special library levy votes passed, I'm pretty sure this would come out in some quarters as "14% of library funding voted down. We're doomed." That, to me, is self-destructive.
- Walt Crawford
And (a) I apologize for the threadjack, since this was originally about most people neither knowing nor caring about ereaders (which seems highly probable) and (b) I should and will take it to a blog post or a C&I essay, since this doesn't devolve well into 140-word chunks.
- Walt Crawford
This is a fascinating thread. My own public library use pattern is to swoop in, check out armloads of stuff, which I then browse, look at, or neglect at home. I can't recall the last book I checked out from the public library and read cover-to-cover. But my wife more than makes up for me in that regard.
- Don't feed the Steve
A week ago, I actually had someone (a nonlibrarian) come racing up to me with her Kindle II to show me all of the books she was reading on it. I'd only met her once before, but it was important to her that I see the reading she was doing and how wowed she was by the Kindle. Some folks are into gadgets.
- Daniel Cornwall
Whilst talking about gadgets, I have to say that the iPhone is a fair ereader, which is an expected result for me. YMMV, but I've finished one book and am working on my second. Not quite the same experience as reading a paperback, but I can't carry a paperback in my pocket.
- Daniel Cornwall
Some folks are into gadgets. Some folks are *really* into gadgets. Some avoid them. A whole lot don't much care one way or the other, I'd bet. (I wouldn't even want to guess percentages in each slice.) But journalists tend to be gadgeteers, gurus tend to be gadgeteers, and that makes a big difference in perception.
- Walt Crawford
Walt - it's just my personal perception. I'm no world-traveller, but I know that every time I mention I'm a librarian, and that I work with books, I get great big stares and they wonder how libraries are still around, and that the last time they used their library was in 4th grade, blah blah. I also prefer to keep in mind that we, as librarians, wind up with an extraordinarily narrow...
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- Miriella
Miriella: I'm not a librarian and have never worked in a public library. I don't work with books. Oh, and I don't love gadgets... I do understand the difference between anecdata and data. I also understand that some disagreements aren't going to be resolved, and that's OK.
- Walt Crawford
I spend a fair amount of time in restaurants at lunch, reading my Kindle, and the responses I get are telling. Most of the people who bother to talk to me know what it is I'm looking at, and would love to get my impressions of it. Some wonder what it is and, when they find out, range from oh! interesting!! to oh - all it does is display books? A few have mentioned that a family member...
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- webgoddess
So there's this odd survey that says nearly half of people asked about their likelihood of purchasing an e-reader or tablet said they would within three years. If it was cheap enough. Most of them would use them to read books, but they'd have to be cheap enough books. I'm not sure what any of it means....http://www.bcg.com/media...
- barbara fister
That really is an interesting survey... web-based, limited to people who say they read print books, newspapers or magazines; need <$200 tablet with multiple suppliers; willing to pay $2-$4 for *one issue* of magazines (really? truly?)... a lot going on there. Thanks for the pointer.
- Walt Crawford
While a lot things about the iPad are closed, there are already many sources for purchasing books--that's one thing that press release seems to get wrong.
- Don't feed the Steve
Okay, who else loves Brussels sprouts?
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I learned to, well, at least like them. especially if they are roasted
- holly #ravingfangirl
I mean, me too!
- caj
I do.
- Jason P
Me! Me! Love them. Especially roasted with bacon and a touch of maple syrup and butter. Mmmmmm.
- Jason Griffey
yes, roasted. they are a pain to clean, though
- marthalib
I don't think I've ever had them. But I'm willing to try them.
- ellbeecee
Ellbeecee, you will probably like them roasted best to start. I love them in all forms and just ate a whole bunch steamed. NOM.
- laura x
I love most vegetables. I find them...ok.
- Derrick
Alice Waters has an outrageous recipes for a brussel sprouts gratin that requires one to separate the sprouts into individual leaves. I have never made it.
- marthalib
Also, I love how brussels sprouts grow on crazy, weird stalks like plants from original Star Trek
- marthalib
Also, in a pinch, the stalks would make excellent weapons
- marthalib
Me.
- John (bird whisperer)
While I'd be willing to try them again, I'm afraid the answer is no. Having said that, I'm not fond of most veggies in the cabbage family, either.
- Katy S
Never had them.
- Rochelle
Fresh, steamed/microwaved gently: Great. "Gently" is key, as overcooking leads to BSN--Brussels Sprouts Nastiness.
- Walt Crawford
Covered in chocolate!
- Glen Campbell no really
I do I do! Many different ways.
- Marianne
Me too. I was apparently a freak kid who loved vegetables, and my mother wasn't surprised when I became a vegetarian.
- Jason P
I think I meant strawberries
- Glen Campbell no really
yes!
- Tamara
No
- Scoble, Alex Scoble
meeeeeeeeeee
- VALZ asks LB is sublet?
Walt is correct. Overcooked they are vile.
- marthalib
MEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
- αnnα vαȵ scoyoç
My daughter almost gave someone a heart attack when she exclaimed in the grocery store something good about Brussels sprouts.
- Bruce Lewis
one of my top 3 fave veggies.
- jambina
I like them occasionally
- Hedgehog
My spouse and I both love them!
- Daniel Cornwall
People don't like Brussels sprouts?
- Alfred C. Ingram
I love em. I never get to eat them because nobody else in the house likes em.
- Gunnybear ™
Sir Shuping is just sir, Subtly LB and Anne Graham liked this
The R&I librarians at UTC did this during the semester back in 2008 when I was here, and it was a huge hit, though I don't know if they still do. You might tap Beverly Simmons, she'd know.
- ωαřмaiden ☆Team O'Otto☆
Just showing it in a classroom and inviting faculty would incur performance rights?
- Jason P
Yep. Any time the audience is "open" - not limited to those enrolled in a specific class - it's a public performance. Sorry.
- Catherine Pellegrino
Unless you purchased a public performance license when you bought the DVD, of course
- marthalib
Ugh. That bites. Maybe I can find some other way to make it work.
- Jason P
Yes. Like doing it anyway and not paying the stupid performance rights.
- Don't feed the Steve
OR, better yet, screening movies that don't have stupid performance rights. Sita Sings the Blues. The BBS Documentary. Good Copy Bad Copy. Movies in the public domain from Archive.org.
- Don't feed the Steve
You could run an episode of Buck Rogers before the main feature!
- DJF
See if your institution has a license. If so, awesome. If not, then damn the man.
- Andy
Heh. Well, we're being pretty careful about copyright stuff these days since we're in a copyright lawsuit. I'm going to check out some of our options when I get back to work next week, though. Thanks for all the advice, you guys.
- Jason P
At MPOW the acquisitions department always buys PPR for all videos added to our collection, in order to make sure there's no problem with a prof showing it to a class.
- DJF
(ETA: This is not legal advice!) There's a specific exemption for profs showing to classes, in person, in classrooms - that is exactly when performance rights are completely unnecessary. (17 USC §110(a)) People are right that open invitation takes you quickly outside the classroom exemption - and such a use is questionable - though you could argue "family style" or "de minimis" use if...
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- N. Ansi
N. Ansi, yes there is. In the United States. Signed: A Canadian.
- DJF
Good point! Sorry I wasn't thinking bigger.
- N. Ansi
Also, the policy of just always buying PPR eliminates any questions about how it might be used at all, which just makes everybody's lives simpler.
- DJF
But, where exemptions or fair use (or de minimis use) arguments exist, paying for rights you already have undermines their very existence.
- N. Ansi
Public performance is *not* covered under fair use, fwiw...
- awd
Aaron, nope, it's not. And the studios have taken to interpreting "movie day" at the day care as a "public" performance. So buying PPR is good.
- DJF
Uh. Fair use (in US law) says nothing about the format of the use. There _could_ be a fair use case for a public performance, if the four factors are met. Most public performances would have a hard time on the "effect on the potential market" factor, but... Time for me to drop out of this thread.
- N. Ansi
1) I'm right there with N. Ansi around how the last thing we should do is undermine fair use by rolling over and playing "good puppy" for the publishers just because it's easier. (though "better for our patrons" is a more complicated question.) 2) I could see there being an eminently reasonable argument that showing your faculty friends some movies in the summer is a fair use. 3) The...
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- Marianne
I'm hearing you, N. Ansi, but chances of unambiguously meeting the four factors for a public performance are vanishingly small...
- awd
Yeah, I can't think of one factor you'd come out ahead on. The "effect on the market" one always pisses me off, because the bogus market in permissions counts.
- Don't feed the Steve
About the only thing I can think of would be a showing of Eyes on the Prize (I think it's out of print and unavailable?) http://www.worldcat.org/title...
- awd
Heh. Unavailable because they miscalculated when clearing the rights to footage in the film: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...
- Don't feed the Steve
They fixed it. It's been out since April. http://www.worldcat.org/title... (not that this has anything to do with Jason's summer plans, but it did distract me from speechifying about fair use.)
- Marianne
If there's anything more important than my summer plans around here, I want it caught and shot now! ... I will update if and when I can find a feasible way to do this. We might have PPRs to some of the documentaries and stuff I have in mind. We'll see.
- Jason P
I'd suggest showing films from the Internet Archive at http://www.archive.org/details.... They're put out with the expectation that people will use them. If you want to maintain the connection to your collection maybe handout a short list of films in the same area. One of my favorites is "House in the Middle" at http://www.archive.org/details... which claimed that white paint and a tidy house could save you in a nuclear attack. I showed a few lunch movies to staff. Reax positive.
- Daniel Cornwall
Update: the documentaries I had in mind for this include public performance rights with our purchase. FTW
- Jason P
Woot, Jàson. So now we know you're allowed to show them, what are they? *may want to watch them her ownself*
- Marianne
Oh, it's this load of expensive documentaries we have from Media Education Foundation. They look interesting and some of my Comm faculty are big fans of them. Since they cost so much I want to try to promote them for class use.
- Jason P
Ah, several of those are heavily used here too.
- Marianne
About to play with DSpace. Have any of you used it?
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*cries and shakes with fear*
- Subtly LB
While I can't compete with Dorothea's vitriol, I've had to use it this spring. All I can say is Do Not Taunt DSpace.
- ellbeecee
*backs cautiously away*
- Subtly LB
I love Dorothea's first comment. Immediately thought: "Geez, I wonder what Dorothea really thinks about DSpace when she isn't being guarded in her comments?"
- Walt Crawford
I hereby present the Nerd Librarian Fangirl Award, on behalf of the LSW Friends of the Library Auxiliary, to D0r0th34, for her awesomely nerdtacular comment.
- Elaine is trying to write
Thanks Dorothea' for a great middle of night laugh! I think you've swept the nerd awards!
- Daniel Cornwall
One framework to rule them all, one framework to find them, one framework to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them.
- Roberto Bonini
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As a followup to my last note, I've done a little research on my own and am satisfied that I can add a data plan on our existing cell number for $30/mo, within my target range. Of the four camera phones supported by AT&T in Juneau, do you have a preference or experience with: - Samsung Solstice - Pantech Impact - Motorola Backflip - iPhone 8GB - I...
Skip the Pantech; their hardware is unimpressive. Skip the iPhone; 8GB is too little. I say that as someone with a small music collection, too! I like Samsung in general as a brand - my current phone is their Impression - but looking at the specs for the Solstice, I'm not really impressed. I think I'd go with the Backflip if I were you.
- Laura H.
Hi Laura, Thanks for commenting. The Samsung Impression is available to me to. Would you recommend that over the Backflip? And would you recommend the 16 or 32 GB iPhone over either. Thanks!
- Daniel Cornwall
Looks like the Impression doesn't do wifi, so I'm going to take it off my list. One of the reasons I'm shopping for a smartphone is to have an easy way to check whether my library's wireless is working.
- Daniel Cornwall
I like the Impression, but I'd go with an iPhone or the Backflip if I had the choice now. :) I think I'd likely go with the Backflip. It has expandable storage (up to 32GB at least), what amounts to free GPS, an actual QWERTY keyboard, better camera...
- Laura H.
I have the 8G iPhone and am fine with the storage - the only times I wish for more is when I'm traveling, since I'd like to sync more videos, especially for long flights. I can't speak to the other phones, though.
- ellbeecee
ÉllbeeÇee - Thanks for stopping by. Laura - It seems like AT&T forces GPS into a monthly fee, at least for their turn by turn directions. Do you know where I could learn more about the Backflip free GPS option? I do a fair amount of hiking and while I don't leave established trails, GPS could be useful.
- Daniel Cornwall
Voyager 2 stops making sense http://arstechnica.com/science...
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13 light hours away and it may still be fixable. Cool.
- Daniel Cornwall
It should not be at the speed of the light a day!! terrible TV programs are received much more than Voyager 2 far away.
- Ami Iida
For Mary Carmen - http://randomlesslyrandom.tumblr.com/post...
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Thank you, Bunneh!
- Mary Carmen
That was so nice of you.
- Daniel Cornwall
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