The Future Library Should Focus on Collecting and Formatting In-house, Locally Created Content

My vision for the future library is to have it focus on collecting and formating all local content into a single knowledge base. When all content: data sets, science notebook, papers, books, reports, manuals, blogs are part of the same knowledge base, then the archive, search, and distribution interfaces are easily managed and updated as technology evolves. In concept, this is similar to what Adam Bly refers to as a “digital core,” but Adam’s vision is global. The focus here is making the local institution’s in-house content future friendly.

Yale Launches Course for the Book and Magazine Publishing Industry

The famous Stanford University publishing course SPPC  (Stanford Professional Publishing Course) was discontinued in 2009.  But New York based helmsman Robert Baensch stays involved with the new Yale start-up.   Yale’s new program, called simply “The Yale Publishing Course,”  intends to replace and supersede Stanford’s previous 5-day summer program by placing more emphasis on new technologies and digital publishing.

The new Yale course was just announced last week, and as yet no curriculum or syllabus is available online, but the focus remains helping commercial publishers adapt to a changing world.  The intended customer for the annual course will be publishing industry executives.

Open Access models will be covered, but I am curious to see if Yale will include a session on the new campus-based publishing movement which many academics and university administrators view as a direct, albeit fledgling competitor to the traditional publishing industry.

Link to the press release:

Yale Launches Course for the Book and Magazine Publishing Industry.