Librarian Way

The QuickTime movie of the lecture The Access to Knowledge Treaty: What if WIPO Actually Worked For Us? A Digital Dialog Lecture with Cory Doctorow, is available on the Internet Archive.

This was the lecture Cory Doctorow gave at UC, San Diego, on March 14, 2005: SSHL News & Events: Digital Dialog Lecture with Cory Doctorow.

[Via J. R. Jacobs on GOVDOC-L.]

Before Sunday, April 24, 2005, answer the quick annual survey for Librarian’s Index at
http://www.zoomerang.com/survey.zgi?p=WEB224A35EQA3L

Or, use this shorter URL: http://tinyurl.com/asljz

LII.org will be rolling out a new website in mid-June.

On Free Government Information, Oznog is blogging from the Spring 2005 Depository Library Council Meeting (April 17-20).

Daniel Cornwall is requesting conference notes and impressions, which will be posted to a new “Grassroots Proceedings” that is planned for this Web site.

[Via D. Cornwall on GOVDOC-L.]

For issues, see also
FCW.com, April 19, 2005: Librarians face existential crisis. Librarians “…expressed concerns about the credibility and archiving of electronic documents. A number of technologies for authenticating and updating e-documents are not in place, and GPO officials have only just begun a major project using new technology to search the Internet to find all government documents published directly to the Web.”

April 20, 2005 revision via R. Kimble on GOVDOC-L.
The proceedings for several years of both spring and fall annual meetings are available via GPO Access. Per Kimble, the Spring 2005 Council proceedings will be posted in about 30 days. FDLP Desktop: Proceedings of Federal Depository Library Conferences (http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/fdlp/pubs/proceedings/index.html)