E-Content: Informing the Transformation of Libraries
PrintIt is a great honor to welcome you to the new E-Content blog from American Libraries. Along with guest authors, I will try to provide guidance and helpful updates from the electronic resources field. Things are a bit murky right now, but as we continue to work with ALA, publishers, and each other, the outlook will hopefully begin to clear. In times of uncertainty, however, it is easy to focus on the unknown or on the known negatives, but things are moving forward. The American Library Association is forming a new Working Group on Digital Content and Libraries and has opened up new channels of communication with the Association of American Publishers as well as individual publishers. This blog will take a critical look at all aspects of the ongoing discussion around electronic content. If you have an opinion to share, or a tip for a news item, please email me at econtentblog@gmail.com.
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“Even though Spaulding’s name is not readily recognized, he was an American patriot who safeguarded the freedoms of US citizens by writing the Library Bill of Rights.”
Teresa Wood, describing Forrest Brisbane Spaulding, head of Des Moines (Iowa) Public Library from 1929 to 1952, as depicted in the play The Not So Quiet Librarian, “A Librarian to Remember,” Webster City (Iowa) Daily Freeman-Journal, Apr. 20.
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Sources of content discussion
Try Pearltrees.com for a start. You can see my examples on Pearltree by entering “kathologist” in the search box. There are groups that are focused on social media; self publishing; Creative Commons; EFF etc.
Artist Nina Paley writes extensively about eMedia and rights on her site ninapaley.com
I look forward to what you find!
e-content
What an opportune timing for this initiative. Congratulations! I look forward to learning more about this topic and hopefully implementing ideas form it for our own library.
Good work,
Ulysses
RSS
I assume there will be an RSS feed for this blog? Looking forward to your comments.
RSS Feed
The RSS feed is http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/e-content/rss.xml
RSS feed
Delighted to see this. Thank you, ALA and Christopher.
BTW, I can’t seem to get the RSS feed on the blog page to work. Perhaps there’s an issue on my end, but I thought I mention it in case someone else has had trouble, too.
Wecoming the blog
Great idea and Chris — you are just the one to lead this. Look forward to the information to come.
New blog
Thanks for starting this up. I’m looking forward to reading your insights!
This New Blog
I need all the help I can get! Thanks!
e-content blog
Thank you! I look forward to reading this blog!
Thank you, Chris!
This blog has great promise! Best of success with it.
Twitter
Will the E-Content blog have it’s own Twitter account?
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