journal entry# 7

A broad definition of copyright is that copyright is the legal rights of the owner of the intellectual property created.

The definition of copyright according to Canada's Copyright Act is: "the sole right to produce or reproduce a work or any substantial part thereof in any material form, to perform the work or any substantial part thereof in public, or, if the work is unpublished, to publish the work or any substantial part thereof."

Copyright infringement - It is an infringement of copyright for any person to do, without the consent of the owner of the copyright, anything that by this Act only the owner of the copyright has the right to do.

Moral rights- The author of a work has, subject to section 28.2, the right to the integrity of the work and, in connection with an act mentioned in section 3, the right, where reasonable in the circumstances, to be associated with the work as its author by name or under a pseudonym and the right to remain anonymous.

Creator- A person or thing that brings something into existence

Author- writer of a book, article, or report.

Plagiarism- The practice of taking someone else's work or ideas and passing them off as one's

Fair dealing- for the purpose of research or private study does not infringe copyright.

Blanket permission-  still looking for this definition

Intellectual property- referring to a number of distinct types of creations of the mind for which a set of exclusive rights are recognized.

Public domain-

may refer to ideas, information, and works that are "publicly available", but in the context of intellectual property law, which includes copyright, patents, and trademarks, public domain refers to works, ideas, and information which are intangible to private ownership and/or which are available for use by members of the public

Journal Entry #6

I believe book trailers are a really smart way of getting people to read our books in the library. The trailer gives you a preview, just like a movie and leaves you hanging wanting to read the book. I believe it’s a very cool way to get people involved since so many people use computers and the internet. When I looked at our school YouTube page I noticed a few books that I wanted to read as well as when you were doing a presentation I was intrigued. Unfortunately though there are no trailers for books I have read.

Journal #5

During my spring break I went to Florida to visit my grandparents for a few days. It was a nice visit and the weather was pretty hot but I did absolutely nothing, so no I did not read any books although I did read a couple magazines on the plane rides both there and back.

Journal #4- eBooks

I believe eBooks could potentially take over the system of a library and all book stores. With the newer generations being more introduced to technology and being able to function it, it will make it more efficient and easier for everyone. Technology is evolving and it’s hyping up everyone, making them want what's popular at the moment. Old-Fashioned people are most-likely not going to want them, they won't convert to palm hold e-readers they prefer holding a book traditionally. I don’t think libraries will disappear but I do think they will be adapted with technology in an interesting way. Also wouldn’t it be better for the environment printing less paper and using technology instead?

Journal Entry #3- Experience in the Library

          My first few weeks as a library assistant has been very interesting, I know really appreciate all the work that goes into keeping a library organized and together. I have already learned a lot already from being directly told and also from you teaching other classes while I have been working. I have learned about the Mevil Dewey system, my alphabet again, shelving books, scanning books, and just how the whole system of a library works. What I have found frustrating is when people that are looking for books, take a book off a shelf and don’t put it back, leaving the shelves in a mess. Other than that I have been enjoying my time and experience in the library.

Poverty of Abundance- Journal 2

Poverty of Abundance

I found this article very interesting and very true! I believe that overabundance of information given to us is making us lazy and use less logic as well as finding incorrect information on the internet. If there was a billion websites on china’s plates; they can’t all be talking about the same thing? I have used Wikipedia numerous times to find answers and many answers that I found were probably all made up by someone else behind a computer screen trying to erupt the internet with false information. The advanced Google search decreases the variety of sites that show up and gives you more specific websites on what you’re looking for. The advanced search will help me in the future with finding more correct information and will be more efficient for my time for searching.   

Biography of Author- Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez

Alisa Lynn Valdes was born in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Her father, Nelson Valdés, is a retired sociology professor at the University of New Mexico, and emigrated from Cuba in the early 1960s.Her mother, Maxine Conant, is a seventh-generation New Mexican of Irish descent, and a poet and novelist.

Valdes spent her childhood primarily in New Mexico, but also lived briefly in Glasgow, Scotland and New Orleans. Upon her graduation from Del Norte High School in Albuquerque she attended Berklee College of Music in Boston where she majored in jazz performance on the tenor saxophone.

Valdes-Rodriguez has since written six novels: Playing With Boys in 2004 and Make Him Look Good in 2006; a Young Adult novel, Haters, in 2006; Dirty Girls on Top, a sequel to The Dirty Girls Social Club, in 2008, The Husband Habit in 2009 and The Three Kings in 2010.

I chose to do a biography on this author because one of my favorite books she wrote which was Haters, I really enjoyed it and read more of her novels after I finished the first one.