On his Embedded Librarian blog, David Shumaker recently mused about the difference between working as partners with our faculty/clients/users/populations/patrons and working to serve them. Shumaker is a former corporate librarian who now researches embedded librarianship, and his brief thoughts on moving from a one-way relationship of service to client (the “information waitress” model of librarianship) [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 7, 2009
Finally DRM-free music at iTunes, but…
Apple announced yesterday that they are now offering iTunes Plus songs (News release – there doesn’t seem to be a permalink). iTunes Plus files are DRM-free, so that is nice. The not so nice part is that if you want to convert your previous purchases to this DRM-free version, you’ll need to to pay: 30 [...]
January 4, 2009
the price of funding
Capital campaigns and other fundraising efforts
Academic institutions, both private and public, are under enormous pressure to raise money from individual or corporate donors. We all seem to be on a competition to get donations, big donations. But I worry that in this race to be the chosen recipient of those big donations the original mission [...]
