No library required: the free and easy backwaters of online content sharing
Twentieth-century libraries were funded to provide content to their communities legally, easily and free. In the twenty-first century, new online competitors supply home consumers, legally and illegally, with what libraries traditionally were best at providing to library users - free and easy conte...
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VALA; Libraries, technology and the future
2012
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| Online Access: | http://www.vala.org.au/vala2012-proceedings/vala2012-session-11-greenhill http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19457 |
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| author | Greenhill, Kathryn Wiebrands, C. |
| author2 | Alyson Kosina |
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| description | Twentieth-century libraries were funded to provide content to their communities legally, easily and free. In the twenty-first century, new online competitors supply home consumers, legally and illegally, with what libraries traditionally were best at providing to library users - free and easy content. This paper suggests that library staff arguing for the value of contemporary libraries should be aware of the quality, methods and material of "hidden competitors". Some "hidden competitors" discussed include "blackmarket" journal article sharing, BitTorrenting sites, online textbook-sharing sites, self-distributing artists, programs to strip Digital Rights Management from ebooks, Amazon's ebook distribution and fan fiction. Possible future models for both "hidden competitors" and libraries - and implications of these - are suggested. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-194572017-01-30T12:14:00Z No library required: the free and easy backwaters of online content sharing Greenhill, Kathryn Wiebrands, C. Alyson Kosina Twentieth-century libraries were funded to provide content to their communities legally, easily and free. In the twenty-first century, new online competitors supply home consumers, legally and illegally, with what libraries traditionally were best at providing to library users - free and easy content. This paper suggests that library staff arguing for the value of contemporary libraries should be aware of the quality, methods and material of "hidden competitors". Some "hidden competitors" discussed include "blackmarket" journal article sharing, BitTorrenting sites, online textbook-sharing sites, self-distributing artists, programs to strip Digital Rights Management from ebooks, Amazon's ebook distribution and fan fiction. Possible future models for both "hidden competitors" and libraries - and implications of these - are suggested. 2012 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19457 http://www.vala.org.au/vala2012-proceedings/vala2012-session-11-greenhill VALA; Libraries, technology and the future fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Greenhill, Kathryn Wiebrands, C. No library required: the free and easy backwaters of online content sharing |
| title | No library required: the free and easy backwaters of online content sharing |
| title_full | No library required: the free and easy backwaters of online content sharing |
| title_fullStr | No library required: the free and easy backwaters of online content sharing |
| title_full_unstemmed | No library required: the free and easy backwaters of online content sharing |
| title_short | No library required: the free and easy backwaters of online content sharing |
| title_sort | no library required: the free and easy backwaters of online content sharing |
| url | http://www.vala.org.au/vala2012-proceedings/vala2012-session-11-greenhill http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/19457 |