Au sommaire: comment planifier et budgétiser les investissements technologiques en pleine récession économique
- Establish a Universal, Open Library or Digital Data Commons
(source: Association of Research Libraries, 02/02/09)
"Deepening our understanding of our Nation and its culture and history, advancing scientific discovery, tackling environmental, economic issues and more, all depend on scientists, researchers, students, scholars, and members of the public accessing our Nation’s cultural, historical and scientific assets. A large-scale initiative to digitize and preserve the public domain collections of library, governmental, and cultural memory organizations will support research teaching and learning at all levels, will help stem the current economic crisis by equipping and employing workers in every state with 21st Century skills, and it will lay a foundation for innovation and national competitiveness in the decades ahead. The goal is to establish a universal, open library or a digital data commons."
- The Once and Future E-Book: On Reading in the Digital Age
(source: Ars Technica, 02/02/09)
"I was pitched headfirst into the world of e-books in 2002 when I took a job with Palm Digital Media. The company, originally called Peanut Press, was founded in 1998 with a simple plan: publish books in electronic form. As it turns out, that simple plan leads directly into a technological, economic, and political hornet's nest. But thanks to some good initial decisions (more on those later), little Peanut Press did pretty well for itself in those first few years, eventually having a legitimate claim to its self-declared title of "the world's largest e-book store."
Unfortunately, despite starting the company near the peak of the original dot-com bubble, the founders of Peanut Press lost control of the company very early on. In retrospect, this signaled an important truth that persists to this day: people don't get e-books. [...]"
- Le papier contre l’électronique (1/4) : Nouveau support, nouvelle culture
(source: InternetActu, 30/01/09)
- Le domaine public est-il vraiment public quand il est numérisé ?
(source: Bibliobsession 2.0, 04/02/09)
(voir aussi le billet de Lafeuille à ce sujet)
- Cornell University Library Expands Print-on-Demand Offerings More than 80,000 Books To Be Offered for Reprint on Amazon.com
(source: liste LibLicense, 04/02/09)
- International Journal of Library and Information Science
(source: Academic Journals / via The Distant Librarian, 04/02/09)
E-revue en libre accès. Premier n° à paraître en mai 2009.
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