Riot Librarian

Category: publishing

  • Libraries as Publishers

    Two weeks ago, I wrote up a fun thought exercise on my vision of the library of the future. One huge component of that vision involves libraries stepping into a publisher/producer role in the scholarly communication sphere. I do believe it’s hugely important for us to begin to embrace these roles, which is why I…

  • Et tu, brute?

    Other people have said more insightful and salient things about Penguin’s recent defection from Overdrive, but I didn’t want to let this one go without saying something. Penguin’s decision to pull all ebooks from Overdrive’s lending program is a huge disappointment (especially when you consider it in light of the fact that they make a…

  • Standards for Social Reading

    On Wednesday, I had the privilege of attending a NISO working meeting on creating a standard for Open Ebook Annotations. The meeting was held the day before the Books in Browsers conference, and was the third such working meeting, after meetings held in New York and Frankfurt. The purpose was to brainstorm around what the…

  • My long and winding road to the library

    I’m guest blogging over at The Desk Set this month, and I’m pretty excited to have the chance to write about my work. My first post is up this morning, in which I recount the long and winding professional path that brought me eventually to the library. Throughout the rest of September, I’ll be talking…

  • Another Big Deal? Working with Publishers

    I’ve been thinking a lot lately about ebooks and digital content, and about what libraries have to do to get publishers and other content providers to work with us and play nice. I’ve been trying to think of what we can offer them in exchange for favorable terms on digital content, and my mind has…