Found this from someone's tag

mentioned in peter morville's library2.0 talk at michigan.

ranganathan -> ncsu -> berkeley? 

* see what your friends are reading?
* keep track of what you've read and what you'd like to read?
* get great book recommendations from people you know?
* make reading fun again?

The Penn Library's new subscription to the Digital Sanborn maps: Pennsylvania provides online access to black-and-white reproductions of fire insurance maps produced by the Sanborn Fire Insurance Company for 586 Pennsylvania communities from the late 19th century through the early 1950s. These maps show streets, building outlines, and other improvements and infrastructure for urban communities.

The online collection, arranged in atlas volumes searchable by county, community, and date, covers all major Pennsylvania cities - Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Erie, Allentown, Scranton, Reading, Bristol, Lancaster, Bethlehem, Harrisburg, and Altoona - as well as many smaller places - Scalp Level, Shickshinny, Jersey Shore, Black Lick, and Throop.

Fenwick, Michael M., "Football's Intellectual Side: The NFL versus Super Bowl parties and the story of the fifty five inch television", John Marshall Law School Review of Intellectual Property Law, Fall 2004

The National Football League (NFL) took action against Las Vega proprietors prior to the 2004 Super Bowl to prevent unauthorized public performances. These establishments intended to have Super Bowl parties (some inviting several thousand people) to watch the game on projector screens with diagonal measurements of up to 20 feet. The basis for the NFL's actions was the Fairness in Music Licensing Act of 1998 (FMLA), specifically with regards to an exemption known as the Homestyle Act. The FMLA limits audiovisual presentations of copyrighted material to screens with a diagonal length no greater than 55 inches.

Fenwick objects to the NFL's condemnation of Super Bowl parties because the FMLA was not meant for broadcast television, furthermore, if not for a flawed television ratings system (Nielsen ratings) this would not even be an issue. Consumers now are being punished for developing a popular trend and proprietors are given the burden of determining what equipment is common enough that it adheres to the Homestyle Act. Fenwick also believes that when a party broadcasts something, there is an implied public license and that the definitions of "perform", "public performance" and "audience" should be redefined; thus revoking the FMLA and the Homestyle Act. He concludes that "statutory language that defines infringement based on consumer trends" should be eliminated to be consistent with the Constitution.

The key statement is that the allegedly flawed Nielsen system is the root of this entire conflict. The NFL is upset that large Super Bowl parties in front of single screens artificially lower the Nielsen ratings, and thus lowers the price that advertisers are willing to pay. The NFL is a business, and they should not be denounced for doing what any profit minded capitalist firm would do; fight for their fair share of the pie. If 50% of American homes are tuning into the Super Bowl, but the Nielsen ratings only reflect 44%, advertisers are paying at a rate below the real market value, thus denying the NFL revenue they are entitled to. It is easy to blame the NFL for taking advantage of a vague, loosely constructed law, but an inadequate television ratings system has forced them to take such actions. In order to ensure a fair return of profits and enjoyability to the NFL and consumers respectively, the Nielsen system needs to be restructured in order to reflect the true number of viewers, and the law must be restructured to strike a fair balance between performers and audience as Fenwick says.

A very great page with lots of links to library extensions.

Extending the capabilities of various web browsers so that they are better able to integrate with library content. Appropriate topics include both new browser extensions, as well as information about how to create them.

how to access TimesSelect conent ...

Full text of all New York Times articles is available through Factiva and LexisNexis. However, you may run into the following problems when trying to locate articles that are included on the TimesSelect website:

Find an interesting abstract or citation that you wish you could read? In many cases you may have access to the complete document through your library -- and Google Scholar can show you when you do.

Google works with libraries to determine which journals and papers they've subscribed to electronically, and then links to articles from those sources when they're available. Once you tell us what library you're a member of, we'll keep an eye out for that library's subscription materials and provide special links to them in your search results.

Find University of Pennsylvania in the list and drag the bookmarklet into your browser to find books in Franklin from Amazon and other ISBN containing pages.

These bookmarklets were inspired by Jon Udell's LibraryLookup homepage. The enhancement provided here is to include other ISBNs for the same work in the query.

LibX is a framework from which editions for specific libraries can easily be created.

xISBN supplies ISBNs associated with individual intellectual works represented in the OCLC WorldCat database. Give it an ISBN, and it returns a list of associated ISBNs.

To be used by a program to return an XML document of all the associated ISBNs for a title.  Sort of like what I do for journal titles using SFX to return ISSNs. 

COinS (ContextObjects in Spans) is a simple, ad hoc community specification for publishing OpenURL references in HTML.

We should think about how to embed these in our pages... 

LibX is a framework from which editions for specific libraries can easily be created.

The Library and the Network: Flattening the Library and Turning it Inside Out

Interesting, supports my point about tier infrastructures, living in the web environment (or in the user's world), and the web as participation space. This speak to how we need to be designing our system at Penn: middleware tools of web services.