Hey there — I’m in ALA and the escalators are off. We make jokes that it’s because it’s Sunday but really there was a power failure and they have to get a [union] electrician in to get the escalators going on a Sunday. Some fun. Good news is the wifi is strong and functional and useful. Come see me today at the skillshare at 1:30 in the exhibit hall. I’ve heard rumors that the nascent Intellectual Property task force of SRRT may be planning a program on Google [scholar/library/answers/&c.] for Annual in Chicago which I think would be excellent.
Author: jessamyn
spotted at the skillshare
Steven’s got a few pictures up from the exhibit hall, including one of me in mid-gesture at the skillshare that I will keep on my desktop as a reminder that, as much as I’d like to, I don’t own my own image.
holy crap – google runs ala search engine!
Speaking of ALA, they now have Google running their site search. This is an amazing improvement to the functionality of the site for a number of reasons: bookmarkable search results, rich search syntax, understandable familiar results. Let’s hope this is a real step in the right direction of increased site usability overall.
radref tooklkit, fair use with cut-and-paste restricted pdfs
Some non-ALA stuff. Sethf has reposted a worth-reading post that’s a bit of a DIY “how to” on how to exercise your fair use rights with PDFs that have cut and paste functionality removed. Why might you need this? He also has a post addressing that.
where’s the swag at ALA?
Please see TangognaT’s schwag wrap-up, this is the sort of thing I love reading blogs for.