Two Ideas for Access to Knowledge

The Infrastructure of Free Expression and Margins of Appreciation by Jack Balkin
[Address delivered at the Second Access to Knowledge Conference (A2K2), Yale University, April 27, 2007. My address at the first A2K conference discussing the basic theory of Access to Knowledge can be found here.] Continue reading @ Balkinization an unanticipated consequence of Jack M. Balkin

Google to Digitize 8,00,000 Books at Mysore University in India

Around 8,00,000 books as well as manuscripts from the Mysore University in Karnataka, India will soon be digitized by Google.

The Mysore University library has around 100,000 manuscripts that are written both on paper as well as palm leaves. These would include India’s first political treatise, the ‘Arthashastra’ written in the 4th century BC by Kautilya. Continue reading

[PS. Above info courtesy: David P. Dillard & Soundara Rajan]

PUNCHLINE:
"Publishing industry via a battle between technology that is predisposed to liberate information and business models that seek to lock information down. For better or worse, the future of innovation and ideas is being defined by the entertainment/publishing industry via a battle between technology that is predisposed to liberate information and business models that seek to lock information down." James L. Hilton, in Copyright Myths and Realities [see the first link below for full details]

When Worlds Collide: Copyright and Scholarship in the Digital Age James L. Hilton;

Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper, Nicholson Baker

Vandals in the Stacks?: A Response to Nicholson Baker's Assault on Libraries (Contributions in Librarianship and Information Science), by Richard J. Cox

Are Poor Countries Losing the Information Revolution, Francisco Rodríguez. Ernest J. Wilson,

It's a steal: who owns what in the digital age

Google Books: Whats Not to Like?

See also Mysore University related posts:

Prof. Shalini R Urs's Contributions to Digital Librariansip

Dr. N B Pangannaya: Life and times

Mysore Univesity Library School Alumni

Body-Mind-Soul - KM initiatives

See also:

KM and Internal Communications based on Nirmala Palaniappan's @ Aa..ha! [Thinking Inside The Blog!]

Knowledge Management @ Multifaith Information Gateway

Knowledge Management, Reference Service, and Web 2.0 Tools

PS. If the youtube link is not active, click here: Web 2.0 with Eric Feola: Why Wikipedia Sucks


There is a growing connection between Knowledge Management (KM), Reference Service (RS) and Web 2.0 tools, such as, Wiki. I found a very interesting article by Angela Kille "Wikis in the Workplace: How Wikis Can Help Manage Knowledge in Library Reference Services."
And the cited sources help in understanding this nexus:

Clyde, L. A. (2005). Wikis. Teacher Librarian, 32(4), 54‑56. Retrieved October 25, 2005, from Library Literature & Information Science database.

Cohen, S. M. (2005). Wiki while you work. Public Libraries, 44(4), 208‑209. Retrieved October 25, 2005, from Library Literature & Information Science database.

Comparison of wiki software. (2005). In Wikipedia. Retrieved October 25, 2005, from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_wiki_software

Davenport, T. H., & Prusak, L. (2000). Working knowledge: How organizations manage what they know. Boston: Harvard Business School.

Fichter, D. (2005a, July/August). The many forms of e‑collaboration: Blogs, wikis, portals, groupware, discussion boards, and instant messaging. Online, 29(4), 48‑50. Retrieved October 25, 2005, from Library Literature & Information Science database.

Fichter, D. (2005b, September/October). Intranets, wikis, blikis, and collaborative working. Online, 29(5), 47‑50. Retrieved October 25, 2005, from Library Literature & Information Science database.

Frumkin, J. (2005). The wiki and the digital library. OCLC Systems & Services, 21(1), 18‑22. Retrieved October 25, 2005, from Emerald Insight database.

Gandhi, S. (2004). Knowledge management and reference services. The Journal of Academic Librarianship, 30(5), 368‑381. Retrieved October 25, 2005, from ScienceDirect database. [editor, abstract fulltext]

Gunnlaugsdottir, J. (2003). Seek and you will find, share and you will benefit: Organising knowledge using groupware systems. International Journal of Information Management, 23(5), 363-380. Retrieved October 25, 2005, from ScienceDirect database.

Jantz, R. (2001). Knowledge management in academic libraries: Special tools and processes to support information professionals. Reference Services Review, 29(1), 33‑39. Retrieved October 25, 2005, from Emerald Insight database.

Leuf, B., & Cunningham, W. (2001). The wiki way: Quick collaboration on the Web. Boston: Addison‑Wesley.

Prusak, L. (2001). Where did knowledge management come from? IBM Systems Journal, 40(4). Retrieved October 25, 2005, from http://www.research.ibm.com/journal/sj/404/prusak.html

Stover, M. (2004). Making tacit knowledge explicit: The ready reference database as codified knowledge. Reference Services Review, 32(2), 164‑173. Retrieved October 25, 2005, from Emerald Insight database.

Tonkin, E. (2005, January). Making the case for a wiki. Ariadne, (42). Retrieved October 25, 2005, from http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue42/tonkin/

Wagner, C. (2004). Wiki: A technology for conversational knowledge management and group collaboration. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 13, 265‑289. Retrieved October 25, 2005, from Business Source Premier database.

Wagner, C. (2005). Supporting knowledge management in organizations with conversational technologies: Discussion forums, weblogs, and wikis. Journal of Database Management, 16(2), i‑viii. Retrieved October 25, 2005, from Business & Company Resource Center database.

See my related post:

Knowledge Capture - Librarians' Role

Wikipedia and Academia Hit News Headlines Again