I have an article in Library Journal this week on HathiTrust, the giant "digital library by libraries for libraries." It's an interview with Heather Christiansen and Paul Fogel, two key HathiTrust staffers that I've enjoyed working with in the past. An excerpt: As librarians and users, we constantly encounter digital discovery interfaces and collections, but we don't... Continue Reading →
upping access to online periodicals.
Today's New York Times online has a piece on a strategy they themselves recently adopted, and one that in tandem with the open publishing movement portends significant change for library e-subscription policy (and hopefully expenditures). Publications such as Sports Illustrated and Newsweek are making their back and historic issues available online, thus increasing their findability... Continue Reading →
authentication meets digitization
It's something of an old story by now, but I heard an amazing piece this weekend on Tech Nation about a novel process that uses CAPTCHAs, the distorted series of characters you confirm when a website needs you to prove you are human, to decipher scanned words. Luis von Ahn, the Carnegie Mellon computer science... Continue Reading →
info-mational 