After an entire year of scanning and meta data entry by a couple of amazing students, we have finished a portion of the World War, 1939-1945, German Concentration Camps and Prisons Collection. The entirety of the Concentration Camp Correspondences [http://digitalcollections.mcmaster.ca/concentration-camp-correspondence] - 1031 to be exact - are up online with full meta data records.

I must say that the Digital Odyssey was the best one day event I have been to. Just a fantastic day with fantastic people talking about awesome projects. It cheered me up and gave me hope in these crap times. Best part of the day had to be Mike Ridley's keynote speech - The Age of Information is over. It is time for the Age of Imagination. It will be the library's job to nurture and foster creativity.

Workshops attended:

We have launched a new (small) collection - Richard Sylvan - Life and Works. This is an ongoing collection, so materials will be added as they are digitized. The materials in this collection consist mainly of publications by the Australian philosopher Richard Sylvan/Routley. Additionally, we have tied the collection in with the IR. A community and series was setup for this special collection.

Bacon...

Sorry, had to get that of the way. Those who know, know. Those who do not, oh well. I will address it later... subtly???

We are launching another student journal in Digital Commons - Nexus: The Canadian Student Journal of Anthropology. The first few issues of the journal have been loaded today. The journal goes all the way back to 1980, so it will be a bit before it is all up online. Also of note, this is an open access journal.

Is Apple in lowering itself to Zango Cash style opt-outs?

We have launched another new journal in Digital Commons - ESURIO - which features refereed content by undergraduate and graduate students on the issues of hunger and poverty. They also officially live at esurio.ca, but wanted to be apart of the institutional repository here at Mac. Check 'em out!

The Image API was recently released for Drupal 5, and changed a lot of things. During my updates (and redesign), I thought it might be a good idea to provide a sort of "how to" for images in Digital Collections. First thing first, make sure you have CCK! Also of note, for each collection that I've setup with CCK, I created a new imagefield for each one, and provided it with a directory in the "files" directory.

Richard Stallman - "Copyright vs. Community" Feb. 2, 2009

0 Freedom to run program
1 Freedom to study source code
2 Freedom to distribute software
3 Freedom to contribute to the community

• its social system is ethical
• proprietary is unethical

What should copyright law let you do? (age of printing press vs digital age) - spent a while discussing the history and evolution of copyright