Library & IT at Bucknell

Please plan to attend Sam Lundquist's Books that Made a Difference talk on April 14, noon to 1 p.m., in the Library's Traditional Reading Room. Sam Lundquist, VP for Development & Alumni Relations, will be talking about the impact that Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods: A Short History of Nearly Everything had on his life. The Books That Made a Difference series is wildly popular and open to all.

If you heard Lawrence Lessig's talk, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, you may be interested in learning more about the Creative Commons, a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to legally build upon and share. Creative Commons provides free tools to help authors, scientists, artists, and educators share and protect their works.

On January 31, 2008, faculty, staff, students, and members of the Lewisburg community participated in a series of event promoting awareness of climate change and other environmental issues. The day's events were sponsored by the Bucknell Environmental Center. The archive features videos and PowerPoint presentations of the interdisciplinary faculty panel discussions, as well as photos of student and faculty scholarship displayed during the lunch event. The Focus the Nation archive is the first collection housed in Bucknell's ScholarVault, a digital archive of scholarly, creative, and research output by Bucknell faculty, students, and staff.

This archive of materials related to the event was built by the Library and Information Technology Department's Digital Initiatives Group and is accessible here:

www.bucknell.edu/ScholarVault.xml

Bucknell University's Digital Initiatives Group is pleased to announce the upcoming Mid-Atlantic Regional Digital Library Conference. The conference will be held on the Bucknell University campus on July 9, 2008.

The conference goal is to bring together librarians and technologists from a wide range of cultural heritage institutions such as colleges and universities, libraries, museums, historical societies, and art galleries, who are interested in providing digital access to their collections. The conference seeks to support this community through a mix of speakers, contributed papers and posters, workshops, and engaging discussion.

Proposals are being accepted on a rolling basis through May 1. For more information visit the Conference blog at http://blogs.bucknell.edu/DigitalLibraryConference2008/

A question that is asked frequently at the Reference Desk is, "Where can I send a fax?"

Bucknell University's Administrative Services will send personal faxes for faculty, students, and staff for a small fee. Administrative Services is located on the first floor of Marts Hall.

For more information call Administrative Services at x73757 (on campus) or 570-577-3757 (off campus).

Lawrence Lessig, renowned copyright and intellectual property rights author, will present a talk "Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy" Thursday, March 27 at 7 p.m. in Trout Auditorium. Lessig, a Stanford Law School professor, is founder of Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, and also Stanford's Fair Use Foundation. He is the author of Free Culture (2004), The Future of Ideas (2001), Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999), and Code 2.0 (2006).

Do you want to print out something in color for a classroom project, or to jazz up a flyer for an event? The tech desk offers color printing for $1 a page. Users can select the color printer at the tech desk for their print jobs, print to that printer, and pick up the jobs at the tech desk.

Want more information? Please stop by the Tech Desk, or call x77777.