libraries 2.0 and 1.0 play awfully nice together

[deborah]

This wonderful. The Nebraska Library commission has been making archived copies of Creative Commons published works and cataloging them into their OPAC. They aren't doing this indiscriminately; they are only grabbing works which are in line with their collection development policy. They are also making spiral-bound printed copies of those works for which the license allows it, and shelving them in the physical collection.

What a fabulous, fabulous mashup of old and new.

(And does it say something about my reading habits that I got this link from lisnews and not from boingboing?)

Comments

[redbeard.livejournal.com]

It's funny, lately in my searching online, I've found a lot of government reports or classic very old and rare monographs turned into pdfs for open access that should have been purchased in hard copy for our lab's library, but haven't for one reason or another. Every time I find one, I send it to our librarian, who prints it, binds it, and puts it on the shelf.

[deborah]

there are some really fantastic government resources online, but so many more that have never been made available. Good for you and your librarian forgetting the print resources up there!