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Musings of Mine: January 2009
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Saturday, January 24, 2009. Print is Dead, Right? Several weeks ago I posted a discussion-starter on Linked-In. I got some interesting replies, and want to share this, and my wrap-up thoughts, in this blog entry. Here goes! Esteemed colleagues: Book sales have been flat for years, and now are trending down. Newspapers are imploding, and magazines may not be far behind. Print on paper is dead, right? Senior Manufacturing Buyer at Large Publisher:. Print Production / Project Manager Seeking a New Position:.
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Musings of Mine: December 2007
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Saturday, December 29, 2007. A Reflection on the Amazon Kindle. In 1962 a taxi dropped me off at the men's dorm at Penn. I had a small trunk filled with clothes and a wallet. I did not have a laptop, a cell phone, an iPod, or an Amazon Kindle. I was a primitive. The Amazon Kindle requires 399 of today's dollars. It comes with wireless access to Wikipedia as a door prize, a freebie, a sweetener for geeks like me who realize what utterly astonishing times we live in. To which the answer is no, not yet.).
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Musings of Mine: January 2006
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Saturday, January 28, 2006. Part 1: Doing Well, Doing Good. From time to time I am contacted by "dot.com" entrepreneurs who want to market a digital service to the non-profit sector. These people have in common the notion that they will be able to do well by doing good. In fact, they hope to do *very* well. To state a simple thesis: no one- except outright thieves- has ever gotten rich from the non-profit sector. Not new-economy rich, and not even old-economy rich. When I say thieves, I am not being meta...
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Musings of Mine: April 2009
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Monday, April 06, 2009. Let's Just Do It Ourselves. Presented for discussion purposes in “Proposal” form. That academic libraries and university presses undertake a comprehensive program to scan books of academic value that are out-of-print. The goals of this program would be preservation, access, rationalization of collection storage, electronic repurposing of content, and the creation of a research database. Linked with a print-on-demand and e-publishing program, this project could be self-sustaining.
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Musings of Mine: May 2009
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Thursday, May 28, 2009. The March of Dimes was created to raise money to cure polio. Many of us remember putting those little coins into slots in cardboard cards, which once filled, were sent to the March of Dimes to help other children avoid this deadly disease. In 1955 Dr. Jonas Salk created a vaccine against polio. The March of Dimes had achieved its goal, and therefore had no further reason to exist. But the organization did not “lay itself down.”. Once brought to life, they don’t want to die. Plus y...
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Musings of Mine: November 2006
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Saturday, November 25, 2006. Japan-US Relations Before WWII. In the Modern Era:. November 19, 2006. Have a war in the middle of the twentieth century? Ask most Americans this question and they will say it was because. Our national psyche seems to require no further elaboration. Being a curious person, I decided to tackle this question for myself. It came as a surprise, then, to come across historian Bruce Kuklick’s new book, Blind Oracles. And discover in his introduction this passage:. These two countri...
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Musings of Mine: March 2009
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009. Time to Say Goodbye, Updated. This article reflects my own personal views, and not those of my library or university. Permission is given to pass it along. Time to Say Goodbye. April 3, 2009. Academic Libraries are looking at a death spiral. We are caught in a financial squeeze where we can only do “less with less.”. We all know the statistics. Impending doom has a way of sharpening the senses. Somebody needs to blow the whistle on the current game. We are losing the race, and ...
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Musings of Mine: December 2008
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Wednesday, December 31, 2008. Google Book Settlement for Librarians. Permission is granted to circulate this article, and to print and copy for non-commercial purposes. Adam Corson-Finnerty is a senior library administrator at the University of Pennsylvania. He is the author of three obscure books that will be affected by the Google Book Settlement. The sentiments expressed in this article are purely his own and do not represent the views of his library or his university. What’s Going to Happen. 8226; We...
