A decade ago today I met my husband online, through a newsgroup. In those days, meeting people on the Internet was still a bit unusual and sometimes you wouldn’t admit that you met online, and certainly not in a geeky sci fi group!
I still find it amazing that this newsgroup post was the start of […]
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Meanwhile, over at LibrariesInteract…
Published by October 22nd, 2007 in Research/Writing and blogs. 0 CommentsRecently at Libraries Interact we asked what people would like to see on the blog. How-to guides were popular, so I’ve been putting together a few posts on different topics. The first two are up now -
How to: Put your feeds on a diet
Organising and prioritising your feeds and email.
How-to: Change library sectors
Some practical tips […]
Librarians and DRM
Published by October 10th, 2007 in General, Open Access, Technology and DRM. 2 CommentsAn issue that librarians are increasingly grappling with is DRM. It has been with us for many years (I remember floppy discs being copy-protected in the 80s) but recently technical protection measures have increased, impacting what and how we lend from libraries.
There’a lot of blogs looking at examples of DRM in libraries (for example check […]
