This May, Managing Director?Adam Ziegler was a guest on the Lawyerist podcast, discussing recent goings-on at the Library Innovation Lab. Sam Glover and Adam discuss the future of law, its challenges and how the Innovation Lab endeavors to address these.?Perma.cc is chiefly discussed, along with H2O and the Free the Law project. Listen here! The… Read more »
Posts Categorized: Podcasts
Dan Cohen on the DPLA’s proposal to the FCC
I’ve posted a podcast interview with Dan Cohen, the executive director of the Digital Public Library of America about their proposal to the FCC. The FCC is looking for ways to modernize the E-Rate program that has brought the Internet to libraries and schools. The DPLA is proposing DPLA Local, which will enable libraries to… Read more »
Are publishers out-competing libraries? Podcast with Andrew Odlyzko
[mp3 here] Last week, Andrew Odlyzko [wikipedia] a mathematician and historian, and former head of the University of Minnesota’s Digital Technology Center, posted a research paper that concludes that the data suggest that libraries are losing their competition with the publishers of academic journals. Andrew is a long-time open access advocate, so he’s not saying… Read more »
Hathi Trust’s copyright victory
Paul Courant, one of the founders of the Hathi Trust, explains this week’s ruling throwing out a lawsuit by the Authors Guild claiming that Hathi’s scan-and-index program violated copyright.
Our podcasts are now at SoundCloud
The Library Innovation Lab podcast series is now available at SoundCloud.
[podcast] Karen Coyle on modern data for modern libraries
Karen Coyle visited us today to talk with us about why it is time for libraries to move to a more modern idea of data, one that focuses more on the data and less on the records, and probably one that makes use of the linked data format that consists of links pointing at public… Read more »
[podcast] Sebastian Hammer on federated search
In this 23min podcast [ogg here], Sebastian Hammer, president of IndexData, explains the srengths and limitations of federated search, which runs queries on a distributed set of sources, as opposed to using a big honking centralized index.
Library Lab/The Podcast 011: A Technological Graveyard?
Listen: 23:07 (Also in ogg) “Your average citizen is not technologically savvy,” says Marilyn Johnson, the author of This Book Is Overdue!: How Librarians and Cybrarians Can Save Us All Even as technology takes over more and more of our lives many of us are living in a technology cemetery, filled with old gadgets we… Read more »
[podcast] Alison Head on what students do in libraries
Listen: 26:28 Alison Head, who is spending time with us at the LiL as she simultaneously is a Fellow at the Harvard Berkman Center ― she is the co-diorector of Project Information Literacy at the Univ. of Washington’s Information School ― spoke with us about a new study she’s done with Michael Eisenberg [pdf] about… Read more »
Michael Jensen on NAP’s decision to publish for free
Michael Jensen explains why the National Academies Press decided to make its material openly available.