I love libraries, and I love books, but there the needs of our students and limitations of our budgets have no room for misplaced romantic attachments. That’s why I’ve found myself paraphrasing something from Ibiblio’s Paul Jones (via Teleread):
That smell of an old book, that smell of old libraries? That’s the smell of the books [...]
Posted June 12, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Libraries & Networked Information, Questionable...funny. Pointless.. Tags: book, books, budgets, education, ibiblio, information, libraries, library, paul jones, romantic attachments, rot, rotting, smell. One Comment.
Alan Wexelblat at Copyfight pointed out this story that talks about increasing limits on public photography.
If you’re standing on public property, you can shoot anything the naked eye can see, explains Ken Kobre, professor of photojournalism at San Francisco State University and author of one of the seminal textbooks on the subject.
…But that apparently doesn’t [...]
Posted June 1, 2005 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Politics & Controversy. Tags: consumer photography, copyright issues, ebooks, free culture, history of photography, ibiblio, judicial decisions, lawrence lessig, naked eye, photojournalism. One Comment.
