{"id":62,"date":"2012-07-19T16:57:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-19T04:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/?p=62"},"modified":"2013-11-04T12:58:01","modified_gmt":"2013-11-03T23:58:01","slug":"links-of-interest-ebooks-leadership-and-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/links-of-interest-ebooks-leadership-and-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Links of interest: ebooks, leadership, and change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>eBooks<\/strong><br \/>\nIn the Library With the Lead Pipe publishes a provocative and persuasive essay on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inthelibrarywiththeleadpipe.org\/2012\/the-ebook-cargo-cult\/\">the eBook Cargo Cult<\/a>, beginning<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Libraries created the present crisis in scholarly publishing, and we are creating a similar crisis now with our approach to ebooks.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>A brief history of how libraries have handled (or given outsiders power over us by paying them to handle) the indexing of serials and how we&#8217;re doing the same with ebooks is followed by an overview of alternative models for ebook management &#8211; several great ones I&#8217;m familiar with including Unglue.It and Library License, and several more that are new to me.<\/p>\n<p>Ellyssa Kroski has gathered her three posts on <a href=\"http:\/\/oedb.org\/blogs\/ilibrarian\/2012\/how-to-compare-e-book-platforms-ilibrarian-series\/\">How To Compare e-Book Platforms<\/a> (points to consider include technical requirements; content; functionality; and sales\/pricing model) along with her presentation providing a background to these criteria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Leadership<\/strong><br \/>\nTwo very insightful posts: the Librarian in Black posts <a href=\"http:\/\/librarianinblack.net\/librarianinblack\/2012\/06\/lessons.html\">7 Lessons Learned While Being The Man<\/a>; the Free Range Librarian responds with her own perspective in <a href=\"http:\/\/freerangelibrarian.com\/2012\/07\/04\/i-am-the-man-and-you-can-too\/\">I am The Man \u2014 and you can, too!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Change<\/strong><br \/>\nJenica (Attempting Elegance) posts an 8-part blog version of her presentation on Killing Fear:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.attemptingelegance.com\/?p=1640\">part 1<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.attemptingelegance.com\/?p=1650\">part 2<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.attemptingelegance.com\/?p=1665\">part 3<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.attemptingelegance.com\/?p=1669\">part 4<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.attemptingelegance.com\/?p=1680\">part 5<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.attemptingelegance.com\/?p=1693\">part 6<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.attemptingelegance.com\/?p=1702\">part 7<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.attemptingelegance.com\/?p=1710\">part 8<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>eBooks In the Library With the Lead Pipe publishes a provocative and persuasive essay on the eBook Cargo Cult, beginning &#8220;Libraries created the present crisis in scholarly publishing, and we are creating a similar crisis now with our approach to ebooks.&#8221; A brief history of how libraries have handled (or given outsiders power over us [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[228,64,229,58],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":297,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions\/297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deborahfitchett.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}