article, S. by the depicted M. nigra female; rotated and cropped by D. S. S. (2011). Self-portrait of a female Celebes crested macaque (Macaca nigra) in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, who had picked up photographer David Slater’s camera and photographed herself with it. Retrieved from https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Macaca_nigra_self-portrait_(rotated_and_cropped).jpg
This is a US based copyright course, but I think it should be very interesting to Librarians in general.
Registration is open for the four week MOOC titled “Copyright for Educators & Librarians. This MOOC will start on 21 July 2014. The co-presenters of this MOOC are all librarins and lawyers, namely Kevin Smith, Duke University; Anne Gilliland, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill; and Lisa A. Macklin, Emory University. The Coursera platform will be used for this MOOC.
From the About Section of the Info Page: The three instructors for the course all began their careers as librarians, and all went to law school in order to assist their colleagues in schools, colleges and libraries better understand copyright. Each now holds a position where their principal role is to help sort out the copyright conundrums that arise in education and libraries. In all of these situations, our goal is to help teachers and librarians accomplish their legitimate educational goals in ways that respect copyright and reduce the fear and uncertainty that sometimes hampers creative teaching. As lawyers, we strive to find responsible ways to say “yes” when asked if a new teaching idea or library services can be considered within the confines of the copyright law.
If you want to free your research – whether it be data, art, written or in any format – for other people to use as Open Access, or protect it from misuse, Creative Commons have written clear, simple to use, global copyright licences you can apply. Matt McGregor, the Public Lead for Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand, will be presenting a seminar at 2pm on the 26th of May in the Undercroft for anyone interested in finding out more about using CC licences, or using CC material.
For more information please contact anton.angelo@canterbury.ac.nz or see http://creativecommons.org.nz/
The Information Management team have put together this excellent pamphlet on handling email. If nothing else, there is a great tip on setting up a rule that delays sending your mail for 2 minutes. I use this for those times when you think “Oh dear, I really don’t think I meant to say that” or “did I add the attachment?”.
The UC Research Repository is not working at the moment, and giving a “Connection Reset” error. The server team are aware, and are working on resolving the issue.
Hummingbird is the new search algorithm adopted by google in last few weeks. Love them or hate them, the vast majority of the web use Google to search for information, so having a clear idea of what they are trying to achieve is very important. Apparently this is the biggest change in their search for over 10 years.
In short, the new algorithm is built around natural language questions: “How do I build a chicken coop”, “where is the nearest podiatrist”. This is to encourage people to use their smartphones, and to leave behind typing. Remember, more than 50% of mobile phones sold this year were smartphones.
Here are a couple of resources that explain it all in more detail:
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