News for Library Nerds, March 14, 2014

Information Literacy is a top priority for Academic Library directors (in case you weren’t sure about that). 

Snarky opinion piece about the best ways to destroy a scholarly communication/internal repository initiative. 

Want to get the data? It becomes less available with every year past publication, when it’s left only to the article writers to manage it. I smell a role for librarians, unless it’s ruined by the problems highlighted in the opinion piece above. . . 

Will books become like Netflix? (i.e. delivered electronically by subscription)

Some myths about clicks and reading on the Internet, along with the reality. (You may want to keep reading below the fold.) 

Tim Berners-Lee celebrates the 25th anniversary of the Internet by calling for a digital Bill of Rights.

You’ve heard of selfies. What about the “shelfie?”

Mayor apologizes for cuts to the library budget, saying "It is the absolute worst decision I have made in the time I have been in public office." Isn’t it great when people realize how much important stuff libraries do? 

Happy Pi Day!