I don't even live in the OC, but I want this app. This is great. And the video advertising it is great also.

Video from 1930 showing librarians moving with book from the old library to the Sterling Memorial Library. This comes from Yale's YouTube Channel.

With the old economics destroyed, organizational forms perfected for industrial production have to be replaced with structures optimized for digital data. It makes increasingly less sense even to talk about a publishing industry, because the core problem publishing solves — the incredible difficulty, complexity, and expense of making something available to the public — has stopped being a problem.

Clay Shirky sums up in one paragraph the plight of the publishing industry. From a fantastic essay.

There is a fair amount of research, the most prominent of which are two reports from McKinsey, showing that access to social networks at work, coupled with a good policy results in a more engaged, more motivated and potentially more innovative workplace. You should set sensible policies and set reasonable expectations for your employees. Social networking sites at their core are communications platform. You should be able to adapt your policies on email, confidentiality, marketing and similar policies to easily include social networking sites. If not, those other policies probably need updating anyhow.

Doug Cornelius sums it up pretty well. Banning social networks does not improve productivity and endangers your business in an economy which increasingly requires the sorts of creativity, innovation, and collaboration seen on social networks.

This animation is from Michael Edson of the Smithsonian, from an IMLS conference. He is a keynote speaker at Computers in Libraries this year. Hope someone live blogs that, and he posts his slides. Thanks to the Infotoday Blog.

This presentation looks great. Wish I'd been there to see it.

Carl Malamud for Public Printer of the US. Thanks Legal Research Plus.

The Huffington Post is running a piece about H.R. 801 (the "Fair Copyright in Research Works Act"), the latest version of John Conyers' awful idea. The law would forbid entities like the NIH from requiring that recipients of government grants make the product of their research openly accessible. (The current practice requires articles be freely accessible after 12 months.) Instead, Conyers' proposal would require that after the American taxpayer has paid for the research, the American taxpayer must pay publishers to get access to the product of the research.