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Copyright for Special Collections: The Special Collections Librarians @Yale break down copyright law for special collection librarians. Though they focus on Yale, I think you'll find this a good learning tool for most special collections. They also say The best source on the difference between ownership of copyright and physical ownership is: The Nature of Copyright: a Law of Users' Rights, L. Ray Patterson & Stanley W. Lindberg; foreword by Robert W. Kastenmeier. Athens: University of Georgia Press, c1991.

Peter Morville has a new Blog and a new Book. You can read

the first chapter of his New Book: "Ambient Findability". It covers the convergence of information and connectivity. Morville discusses the Internet, GIS, and other network technologies that are coming together to make unlimited findability possible. He explores how the melding of these innovations impacts society, since Web access is now a standard requirement for successful people and businesses. But before he does that, Morville looks back at the history of wayfinding and human evolution, suggesting that our fear of being lost has driven us to create maps, charts, and now, the mobile Internet.

OCLC ResearchWorks, OCLC's research laboratory. ResearchWorks demonstrates a few of Lorcan Dempsey and crews ideas for applying new technologies to organize information. In some cases, they serve as examples of things you can develop or incorporate into your own systems.

Suggestions for more Quick Links are welcome.

Bhojaraju G sent in a link to his Knowledge Management - Cyberary where he is trying to consolidate here as many as useful links as possible. There's already a huge list of websites.