The Arcadia Project is a three-year project funded by a generous grant from the Arcadia Fund to explore the role of academic libraries in a digital age. A major part of the project is a Fellowship Program which brings interesting people to Cambridge to work on aspects of this very broad subject. We have a project website which serves as the hub for our more formal activities. This blog is an informal space for exchanging ideas, contacts and sources.
GenAI, Derivative Works and the Creative Industries
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Coming back home from an open mic (tale told: Sir Cleges and wht Winter
Cherries) I heard a brief mention of a proposal to exempt the techBroCos of
royalty...
Home For a Rest
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It’s time for a break, to be—as Spirit of the West sings—home for a rest!
I’m in the final week of our Fall term, with a two-week break to look
forward t...
The Enshittification Engine
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(Spot on image, update from his earlier version by Chaz Hutton
https://www.instagram.com/p/DDbmv-yNijL/) When explaining the concept of
enshittification, C...
Handy Library Marketing Resources from Innovative
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[image: Handy Library Marketing Resources from Innovative]
Check out Innovative’s blog post Top 10 Resources for Library Marketing
Inspiration. There’s so...
Missing Mike Shatzkin
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Mike Shatzkin who passed away last week was a friend of mine. Mike was a
walking encyclopedia of the publishing industry and if he didn’t recall
somethi...