Category: Opinion and Commentary
UC Libraries endorse Joint Statement on the Metadata Rights of Libraries
On behalf of the UC Libraries, the Council of University Librarians (CoUL) has unanimously approved endorsement of the Joint Statement on the Metadata Rights of Libraries. Released in March 2023 by the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) and the […]
Undefined Future Uses
Last week I attended a lecture titled “Computing and the Practice of History” by Dan Cohen, Director of the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. He focused on three things to explore how the digital […]
The Progress of Preservation
I was very pleased by the nice recognition from Library of Congress’s “Top Ten Digital Preservation Developments of 2012” of three projects CDL has been involved in: The DataUp Project. The University of California Curation Center at the California Digital […]
Putting the P in DPLA
By Heather Christenson I don’t work in a public library; I work in an academic library, and specifically, an academic digital library. In recent years academic libraries have been grappling with the social and economic changes arising from a new […]
GBS at the Crossroads: What Now, What Next?
One year ago last February just days before the Google Books Settlement Fairness Hearing, I wrote a blogpost fancifully titled Hurtling Toward the Finish Line: Should the Google Book Settlement Be Approved? In the ensuing weeks and months as we […]
Amazing times, social media
I work with web archiving full-time so you think that I’d be used to the web by now – but sometimes it can still strike me as strange. These have been amazing times in recent months, with revolutions and uprisings […]
Get Inspired By 3 Of Our Favorite Blogs
Curious about where we get our ideas for Your Life@Work? Sometimes our post will arise from a skill we already have and want to share; sometimes it’s from a wish to learn something new so you can learn it too. Often, […]
The Project Post-Mortem: A Valuable Tool for Continuous Improvement
Now that your team has finally delivered its project, there is one more important step before the team disbands: the project post-mortem. The name might sound forbidding (some people prefer to call it a “project retrospective”), but it really just […]
The Scholar’s Library is Global
There has been much talk of late about the need for and possibility of creating a National Digital Library (see the call by Robert Darnton and one response by Roy Tennant (http://blog.libraryjournal.com/tennantdigitallibraries/2010/11/08/dueling-national-digital-library-visions/) ). An especially thoughtful response by Paul Courant […]
Launch Your Project With A Brief Energizing Goal
Have you ever worked on a project team and found you weren’t really sure what the goal of the project was? Leslie and I recently attended a University of California Extension project management class. The instructor, Cheryl Allen, shared an […]