[Web4lib] Cites & Insights 8:1 available

[Walt Crawford]

For perhaps the first time, the January issue that begins a new volume of
Cites & Insights is available in...January.

Cites & Insights 8:1 (January 2008) is now available for downloading at
http://citesandinsights.info/civ8i1.pdf

The 30-page issue (PDF as always, but HTML separates for each essay are
available at http://citesandinsights.info/ ) includes:

* Announcing Cites & Insights volumes 6 and 7 in book form - Cites &
Insights Books at Lulu.com (http://lulu.com/waltcrawford/) now offers
these volumes in paperback form, $29.50 each, with a bonus in each case
(and full-color cover photos). The bonus for Volume 7 is Cites on a
Plane, the phantom issue from January 2007. For Volume 6, it's a brief
preface including "where are they now?" notes on liblogs studied in 2005
and 2006 that have either moved, changed names or apparently gone
silent.

* Bibs & Blather: Thinking about Leadership - Some thoughts after a few
weeks working on the PALINET Leadership Network, including my current
take on "Who's a leader?"

* Perspective: Discovering Books: An OCA and GBS Retrospective - A full
year after the previous coverage of Open Content Alliance and Google
Book Search, it's time for some updates, but also a quick retrospective
of C&I coverage of these projects.

* Perspective: A Time of Limits? - Does "everybody" actually use
Netflix? Have we all become upper middle class? Is there some limit to
disposable income--and are some of us disposing of income we don't
really have? Some thoughts on ubiquity and reality.

Next month? Maybe back to "normal," whatever that might be--and maybe,
just maybe, the academic library companion to Public Library Blogs: 252
Examples.