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Libraries • Policy • Technology • Media Cites & Insights Crawford at Large Libraries • Policy • Technology • Media Volume 5, 2005 Numbers 1-14 Walt Crawford ISSN 1534-0937 Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large, ISSN 1534-0937, is written and produced at least monthly by Walt Crawford, a senior analyst at RLG. Opinions herein do not reflect those of RLG. Comments should be sent to [email protected]. Cites & Insights is sponsored by YBP Library Services, http://www.ybp.com. Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large is available at http://cites.boisestate.edu Cites & Insights: Crawford at Large is copyright © 2005 by Walt Crawford: Some Rights Reserved. Original material in this work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution- NonCommercial License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/1.0 or send a letter to Creative Commons, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, California 94305, USA. Cites & Insights comes from Mountain View, California. All body type is Berkeley Oldstyle Book. Headings are Friz Quadrata BT. Composition and layout done in Microsoft Word XP (including index). Translation to PDF via Adobe Acrobat 7 Index to Cited Articles “Mw” refers to the Midwinter issue (5:2), “Sp” to the Spring issue (5:5), "J/A" to the July/August issue (5:9), and "Mf" to the Mid-Fall issue (5:13). “‘Censorship’ bill lifts ban on speech”, May 2 “Dispelling five myths about e-books”, Nov 10 “‘First sale’ and DVDs?”, May 9 “Does the music matter?”, Feb 5 “’Rights’ in digital rights management”, Jan 21 “Dogpile: Search engines don’t have much in common”, Oct 18 “10 hot tech trends of 2001”, Mw 10 “Don’t bore me with your blog”, Nov 7 “11 layers of citizen journalism”, Nov 5 “Don’t get gigged”, Jan 11 “2001: a failure odyssey”, Mw 13 “Don’t stand too close to me”, Feb 3 “25 years of technology”, Feb 19 “Don’t surrender library values”, J/A 17 “5 years?”, Mf 8 “Dot.life”, Feb 10 “62pc of netizens unaware of Pahamahadeen militants”, Feb 9 “Draft: Social media scorecard”, May 18 “After a flawed policy, what’s next for librarians and open access?”, Jun 18 “DRUMS: In search of a file-sharing solution”, May 5 “The A-List and the Z-List”, Oct 23 “DVDs could spark digital TV sales”, Mw 16 “Anatomy of aggregate collections”, Dec 22 “Ebooks in UK public libraries”, Mar 21 “Are libraries places to learn or engage in illegality?”, J/A 18 “Ebooks worm their way into the reference market”, Nov 22 “Are print journals obsolete?”, Jan 8 “E-books: challenges and opportunities”, Mar 20 “Are you becoming a slave to your RSS reader?”, Jun 10 “The economics of free, scholar-produced e-journals”, Nov 13 “Art finds a mobile home”, Oct 16 “Emerging technologies for small libraries”, Mw 1 “As we see it”, Mar 14 “Epaper: the flexible electronic display of the future”, Jun 16 “Assessing the durability of formats in a digital preservation environment”, “The e-print deposit conundrum”, Nov 13 Apr 7 “Ethics in blogging”, Nov 8 “BackTalk”, Apr 12 “The ethics of republishing”, Feb 1 “The balanced librarian”, Apr 7 “Even the rat race needs a slow lane”, Feb 9 “Beyond the big ©: Copyright becomes ‘no right to copy’”, May 7 “The faith-based encyclopedia”, Feb 11 “Beyond the PC”, Nov 21 “Family Entertainment and Copyright Act passes”, May 3 “A bibliographic metadata infrastructure for the twenty-first century”, Apr 8 “Family feud”, Apr 14 “Big brother inc.”, J/A 8 “FAQ: Adopting ‘orphan works’”, Sep 23 “The biggest web design mistakes of 2004”, Apr 20 “FAQ: One last spin: Floppy disks head toward retirement”, Feb 20 “Blah, blah, blah and blog”, Mw 14 “Fish, fire, and fallacies”, Mw 17 “Blog 500 Challenge”, Oct 25 “Five years after the end of the world”, Jun 16 “Blog ranking: incoming links??”, Oct 24 “Five years to e-ink, or, you know my name, look up the number”, Mf 10 “Blog the web with RSS”, Jun 10 “Flash memory to speed up hard drives”, Nov 20 “A blogger’s code of ethics”, Feb 3 “Follow the money”, Jun 16 “Bloggers beware: Debunking eight copyright myths of the online world”, “From thinkers to clickers”, Mw 18 Jan 22 “Geeks, social imaginaries and recursive publics”, Nov 13 “Bloggers from the A-list to the Z-list”, May 18 “Getting to 100%”, Jun 24 “Blogging and ethics”, Feb 3 “Good tips for beginning bloggers”, Jun 10 “Blogging for its own sake”, Oct 24 “Google isn’t everything”, Oct 7 “The blogging geyser”, Nov 6 “The Google Print controversy: A bibliography”, Dec 14 “The blogging iceberg”, Nov 6 “The Google Print Library Project: A copyright analysis”, Dec 16 “Blogging sponsorship, silicon valley style”, May 15 “Google Print on hold”, Oct 4 “Bloglines for librarians in three (and a half) easy steps”, Jun 10 “Google Print vs. onsite collections”, Nov 11 “Blogs: Defined and discussed”, Jun 10 “Google Print: Copyright vs. innovation vs. commercial value”, Oct 4 “Bobby socks and building projects”, J/A 18 “Google, Google Scholar, and librarians”, Oct 2 “Breaking down information silos”, Feb 7 “The great failure of Wikipedia”, Feb 12 “Can a course management system improve information literacy skills?”, Sp “Groundhog day”, May 7 21 “Hack your gadgets”, Feb 21 “The changing information cycle”, Feb 21 “Helping scholars and helping libraries”, Jun 24 “Circulation analysis of print books and e-books in an academic research “Here come the Napster-proof CDs”, Mw 11 library”, Mar 22 “The hidden cost of buying information”, Apr 22 “Citations and links as a measure of effectiveness of online LIS journals”, J/A “Home theater”, Jun 15 20 “HopStop.com: Mastering mass transit”, Oct 18 “A comparison between migration and emulation in terms of cost”, J/A 20 “How Google will scan the world, 1 book at a time”, Apr 10 “A comparison of the size of the Yahoo! and Google indices”, Oct 4 “How green is my publisher?”, Jun 21 “Continued need for print distribution from government”, Mf 18 “How I learned to love Larry”, Jan 21 “The copyright ‘copyfight’ is on”, May 3 “How legitimate are you to your readers?”, May 16 “Copyright ownership in blogs”, Nov 7 “How to blog safely (about work or anything else)”, Jun 11 “Copyright reform to free orphans?”, Sep 23 “How to facilitate Google crawling”, Mar 5 “The cost of ethics: Influence peddling in the blogosphere”, May 15 “How to make an award-winning movie”, Feb 20 “Crazy technology predictions for 2005”, Mw 3 “Identity”, May 17 “Critiquing the curriculum”, Apr 16 “Idiot’s guide to OpenURL 1.0”, J/A 9 “Delivering the news with blogs”, Jun 11 “IE 7: So much for firefox”, Apr 17 “Digital horizons”, Mar 15 “Impact from Washington: how will national policy changes affect you?”, Sp “Digital library services for all”, Nov 10 22 “Digital rights management: A failure in the developed world, a danger to “The importance of open access, open source, and open standards for the developing world”, May 8 libraries”, Nov 17 “Discovering important bloggers based on analyzing blog threads”, Nov 8 “IMS journals on arXiv”, Jan 9 Cites & Insights Indexes to Volume 5 1 “Institutions of learning or havens for illegality”, J/A 18 “Rhapsody: Free music for all”, J/A 9 “Intent”, May 17 “RIAA sues dead people”, May 6 “Interactivity and student engagement”, Sp 23 “Righting copyright: Fair use and ‘digital environmentalism’”, May 9 “Interviews: On the future of libraries”, Nov 10 “Rss hub-bub”, Feb 6 “Is DRM evil?”, May 8 “Scientific research: The publication dilemma”, Nov 17 “Is podcasting for real?”, Jun 13 “Serving two masters”, Feb 5 “It’s not dangerous”, Jun 11 “Shadow internet”, May 5 “Just because you can…”, Apr 21 “Shared mission, sharing resources”, Sp 22 “Key open access concepts”, Nov 17 “Should historical scholarship be free?”, Jun 18 “Leading communities through info technologies”, Sp 11 “Smoking the blog crack”, Jun 13 “Legally speaking—the top ten intellectual property cases of the past 25 “Social software in the library”, J/A 18 years”, J/A 18 “Some problems with virtual reference”, Feb 6 “Leggo my ego: GooglePrint and the other culture war”, Dec 18 “Some rights reserved”, Mw 17 “Legitimacy: How responsible are you to your readers?”, May 16 “Sound of music”, Feb 10 “Let’s write about audio”, Jun 11 “Spectrum of e-journal access policies”, Jun 23 “Librarian to Google: Stop being evil”, Oct 5 “Stability comparison of recordable optical discs”, Apr 22 “Librarian’s reading list: The future of music”, Mf 19 “Straw men made of paper”, Mf 12 “Librarians to Google: stop being evil (our buggy whip sales are down)”, Oct “Straw men made of vapor”, Mf 14 6 “Student use of technology”, Sp 21 “Libraries and librarians in a digital future: Where do we fit”, Mf 5 “Surround sound in a box”, Nov 20 “Libraries: the original ‘long tail’”, Apr 6 “Surveying the digital landscape: evolving technologies 2004”, Mw 2 “Library blogger’s personal protocols”, Feb 3 “Tales of the sausage factory: May day with the Supremes”, J/A 2 “Link love lost…”, Oct 25 “Tech needs pyramid”, Mw 3 “Local history in e-books and on the web”, Mar 20 “Tech talk”, Mar 15 “LOCKSS peer-to-peer digital preservation system”, Nov 18 “Technically speaking, Web filters working”, Oct 8 “Loving the long tail”, Oct 22 “Ten biggest problems in computing and how we’ll solve them”, Nov 21 “Lust for reading”, J/A 19 “Ten things a blogging librarian must do”, Feb 3 “Make your photos great!”, Nov 22 “This time for sure?”, Mf 8 “Making books easier to find”, Oct 3 “Too much fun”, Feb 5 “Man’s best friend (outside of a dog)”, Mf 16 “Top 10 web fads”, Oct 17 “Media hack”, Oct 1 “Top ten things to stay tech current”, Mw 2 “Media legitimacy: The core responsibility of the media”, May 16 “TTW on podcasting”, Jun 12 “More socialized science”, Jun 20 “Turning books into bits: Libraries face the digital future”, J/A 12 “Multichannel music in the balance”, Mar 15 “Twelve techie things for librarians 2005”, Sp 11 “Musings of a nextgen librarian”, Feb 4 “UC libraries use of Google Scholar”, Oct 2 “My job in 10 years”, J/A 13 “Using technology to connect with today’s generation”, Sp 20 “My job in 10 years—Collections pt.
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