Just got back from presenting at the Indiana Library Federation Conference in Indianapolis regarding Digital Content. The presentation in front of 100+ attendees went wonderful. I did rush myself a bit so we could get to the Q&A and was thankful that I did because we had some good questions. I hope to post the audio soon.
The big takeaways were:
- Libraries should embrace the communities that support and encourage sharing (public domain, copyleft, copyfree)
- A hardware/software solution needs to be implemented to help patrons interface with these resources (e.g. Archive.org) similar to the Freedom Toaster
- The cost to libraries for digital content is roughly the same for paper content
You can download a copy of the ILF Conference 2012 handout here.
If you want to continue reading about the movement that encourages engagement vs. passivity please check out these books (free downloads):