23 April 2011

Sheffield iSchool researchers: blog discussion

Just over a week ago, I helped to lead a conversation about blogging for research in the monthly Sheffield iSchool researchers informal discussion meeting. You can read about some of the issues we talked about on the iSchool researchers blog. My contribution followed a fascinating talk about the Warburg Institute library - I recommend having a look at the post about that, too.

Since then, I've been thinking about how this blog is developing and how I could improve it. A comment on a previous post suggested that more pictures would help and I'll certainly try to add some in future. I think I still have work to do clarifying the topic - I'll return to that subject again as my ideas develop. I also hope to write more about the reading I'm doing (articles, books and reports etc). However, I also thought this might be a good time to ask you if there's anything else which you think the blog could benefit from. Any comments or suggestions would be very welcome!

15 April 2011

Legal deposit regulations and Intellectual Property review

In a previous post I mentioned the recent Consultation on the Draft Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-print Publications) Regulations 2011. The Government published its response last week, which was welcomed by the legal deposit libraries.

I've also been looking at the Independent Review of IP and Growth: Submissions Received webpage, which now includes all the consultation responses due to be published. From that site, I've just been reading the British Library's Response from the British Library to the Independent Review of Intellectual Property and Growth.