Future Reading by Anthony Grafton New Yorker magazine 11/05/07 http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/05/071105fa_fact_grafton

OCLC announces the release of its new report, Sharing, Privacy and Trust in Our Networked World. It is available online in PDF and will be available for order in print later this month. In light of MLC’s annual meeting earlier this month, “Libraries Build Communities,” this is a timely report. Chrystie Hill, who was the …Read more »

CDP@BCR is considering development of a grant proposal for a workshop and internship on long term digital preservation for digitization collaboratives. They would like to assess the interest in such a program among the collaborative digitization community and to gather some background information. If your library is involved in collaborative digitization, please take the time …Read more »

Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web New York Times report on research libraries and digital collections.

Article in today’s New York Times: Library of Congress Advances 2 Digital Projects Abroad

Today we announced the formal launch of the Michigan Libraries Wiki (click here for the press release). MLC staff and others have been working on the Michigan Libraries Wiki since December 2006, and the wiki is finally ready to go public. Yay! We had some great presenters last year at MLC’s Library Rebooted program on …Read more »

For the past few months, MLC staff and others have been working on putting together content for the Michigan Libraries Wiki – see http://mlcnet.org/wiki. We’re excited to announce that the wiki is finally “ready for prime time” and will launch formally next week. Our goal is to provide a useful library wiki for Michigan library …Read more »

Karen Schneider has written a pretty good overview of open source software and the reasons why it’s gaining in popularity among librarians. She follows up her TechSource column with another on her own blog.

The New York Times has an interesting article today about eBooks and the new “Kindle” reader coming from Amazon. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/06/technology/06amazon.html

On and off over the past several years, I have fielded questions about whether MLC was interested in running a shared integrated library system. Up to now, we have declined to offer such a service. Lately the questions have become more numerous and with the added twist of whether we would consider running Evergreen, the …Read more »