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It’s nothing short of an indictment of our society at large that Aaron Swartz, one of the co-creators of the RSS protocol (among many other things) was effectively assasinated by our legal system for “illegally” downloading about 70 gigabytes of academic articles from JSTOR - charged so excessively to be made an example of (we're talking 35 years in prison, $1million USD fine, and asset forfeiture) to the point where he felt the need to take his own life rather than deal with the court circus and impending financial ruin - while Facebook (oh I’m sorry Meta) has torrented 80 TERABYTES of books to train their AI models with virtually no consequences other than a court case they will most likely get some sort of financial slap on the wrist for while their AI models continue to print them money.

Pygit2 is a set of Python bindings to the libgit2 shared library, libgit2 implements the core of Git. Pygit2 works with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3

Pygit2 is a set of Python bindings to the libgit2 shared library, libgit2 implements the core of Git. Pygit2 works with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.1, 3.2 and 3.3

It begs the question why every author, filmmaker, and musician isn’t up in arms about the New York Public Library’s rampant sharing, while there’s a ton of opposition to the sharing habits of BitTorrent peers who use The Pirate Bay. After all, The Pirate Bay’s community shares significantly less than the New York Public Library: just 1 million items in 2008 (and the collection certainly hasn’t grown 5000% since then). The reason that The Pirate Bay is offensive, and the New York Public Library is not, is because of its efficiency.

It begs the question why every author, filmmaker, and musician isn’t up in arms about the New York Public Library’s rampant sharing, while there’s a ton of opposition to the sharing habits of BitTorrent peers who use The Pirate Bay. After all, The Pirate Bay’s community shares significantly less than the New York Public Library: just 1 million items in 2008 (and the collection certainly hasn’t grown 5000% since then). The reason that The Pirate Bay is offensive, and the New York Public Library is not, is because of its efficiency.

Getting closer to a Max Headroom future, every day

This may gain more traction if it were titled "Why you can't play your library's copy of Battlefield 3 online"

Archivematica provides an integrated suite of free and open-source tools that allows users to process digital objects from ingest to access in compliance with the ISO-OAIS functional model and other digital preservation standards and best practices. All of the Archivematica code and documentation is released under GPL and Creative Commons open-source licenses.

BagIt is a hierarchical file packaging format designed to support disk-based storage and network transfer of arbitrary digital content. A "bag" consists of a "payload" (the arbitrary content) and "tags", which are metadata files intended to document the storage and transfer of the bag. A required tag file contains a manifest listing every file in the payload together with its corresponding checksum. The name, BagIt, is inspired by the "enclose and deposit" method [1], sometimes referred to as "bag it and tag it".

Infrared remote library for Arduino: send and receive infrared signals with multiple protocols

"Underscore is a utility-belt library for Javascript that provides a lot of the functional programming support that you would expect in Prototype.js (or Ruby), but without extending any of the built-in Javascript objects. It's the tie to go along with jQuery's tux."

"This collection of library and information technology blogs have changed that, and now you’ll be able to learn about all of the trends, developments, tools and resources available to librarians in every niche."

"I'm very excited about my first day at work tomorrow in my new job at the Internet Archive, here in San Francisco, in the beautiful Presidio. I'll be heading up the Open Library project."

Hey, look, I'm in the LIbrary of Congress! "Displaying 1 through 3 of 3."

"RubyGems is a package manager for Ruby. At GitHub, we've tried to make the process of building and releasing new gems as simple as possible. Please see the documentation below on how to use the system."

"this is "collection development", but from a personal point of view..."

"Part of the library's dynamic growth is in its programming - the events it holds at its locations. In fact, the library is much more than a provider of circulating materials. It’s increasingly a venue for speakers, community organizations and a wide va

"Mister Bookseller is unsurprisingly about a bookseller, but what's curious is that his shop seems to have a copy of each book ever--- in fact, it has all the books ever."

"Here’s a collection of Ajax, Javascript and DHTML Libraries."

"OCLC ran their software contest for the second year ... And Talis gathered an international team of judges to invite anyone, anywhere, to use anything in order to demonstrate an interesting new take on the library's online presence."

"A few libraries, drivers refuse to give up on relic of days gone by"

"We do quite a bit of software development at AADL, and some of the work we've done may be of interest or use to other libraries."

"Welcome to the AADL Developer Blog! Software Development is a big part of what we do here at AADL, and this section of aadl.org is the place to keep up with our new features, see what our developers are working on, and find out what kind of tools we're p

"whether we would consider running Evergreen, the open source ILS used by public libraries in Georgia."

"This is information central for Evergreen, an enterprise-class Integrated Library System (ILS)." Like, for libraries with actual books.

"Libraries have warned that the rise of digital publishing may make it harder or even impossible to access items in their collections in the future."

"I expect that when I have kids they'll know more than me too, only I won't be embarrassed by it, I'll encourage it."

"The trick is assembling the right components to create unique, immersive experiences for our patrons both online and off."

"To a large extent, this conference is for people who need to be told to try new things, people who have to have their hands closed around a rock and moved up and down before they will actually beat on something with it. Beating things with rocks comes na

"Superpatron Ed Vielmetti has been quietly assembling a fantastic group of people to attend the first ever Library Campan "unconference" which follows open-space guidelines."

"One of my goals for 2006 is to realize my vision for an AADL development program that allows patrons, community members, and anyone interested to develop software around AADL’s services."

"I'd love it if every time I got a book there was some leftover of a previous reader"

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"Even in the Age of Search, we still need authors to find the meaningful books! "

Looks like a cool way to share books & movies with people you might not have met