Just the other day the Librarian of Congress announced the rules for exemption to DMCA (Digital Millenium Copyright Act) regarding circumventing access-control technologies. And guess what! They’re more permissive than before! Today I have designated six classes of works. Persons who circumvent access controls in order to engage in noninfringing uses of works in these […]
The Pacific University Library has partnered with the Pacific University Department of Philosophy to produce a new open access annual journal of student scholarship – Res Cogitans. The journal is hosted on the Library’s repository platform, and the first issue is available now. Papers in Res Cogitans are selected from those presented at the Pacific […]
Next Thursday, July 29th, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Information Policy, the Census and National Archives will hold a hearing on public access to federally funded research. You may remember that last winter the Office of Science and Technology Policy requested public input on the expansion of public access policies, […]
We’ll be making our selections for Ignite-style lightning talks to be given at the ACRL OR/WA Annual Joint Conference at Menucha at the beginning of August. Submit your ideas today! You have 5 minutes and 20 slides to tell your colleagues from Oregon and Washington academic libraries what you think about the future! What will you […]
As one of ALA’s 2010 Emerging Leaders, Miriam was asked to post some reflections on blogging for ACRLog. So, of course we wanted to feature it here too!
Interested in submitting a blog post? Have a topic you think would be interesting for our members? Let us know! Click here to submit.
