{"id":723,"date":"2018-10-10T18:19:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-10T18:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/?p=723"},"modified":"2019-02-28T19:08:11","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T19:08:11","slug":"perma-at-boston-universitys-libraryfest-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/2018\/10\/10\/perma-at-boston-universitys-libraryfest-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Perma at Boston University&#8217;s LibraryFest 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure of manning a table at the BU Law School LibraryFest this past month! Librarian Shira Megerman invited me to discuss the Library Innovation Lab projects with BU Law Students, including Perma.cc and H2O.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-728\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/files\/2018\/10\/1254px-Boston_University_Law_School_Complex-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/files\/2018\/10\/1254px-Boston_University_Law_School_Complex-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/files\/2018\/10\/1254px-Boston_University_Law_School_Complex-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/files\/2018\/10\/1254px-Boston_University_Law_School_Complex-676x902.jpg 676w, https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/files\/2018\/10\/1254px-Boston_University_Law_School_Complex.jpg 1254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>B.U. Law Tower. Image c\/o Wikimedia<\/em><\/p>\n<p>There was significant interest from the law students, most of which were 1L&#8217;s, about how Perma.cc tackles the issue of link rot. As I&#8217;ve found with others, they hadn&#8217;t considered the potential impact of link rot on their research or citations, but quickly understood both its impacts and how Perma addresses them. Many were also intrigued by <a href=\"https:\/\/opencasebook.org\">H2O<\/a>, in particular how it lets instructors create a textbook for their course that would be either free (when accessed online) or a fraction of the cost of a traditional casebook (when distributed through a print-on-demand service).<\/p>\n<p>My thanks again to Shira and the BU Library staff for their friendliness and energy! &#8211; Brett<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had the pleasure of manning a table at the BU Law School LibraryFest this past month! Librarian Shira Megerman invited me to discuss the Library Innovation Lab projects with BU Law Students, including Perma.cc and H2O. B.U. Law Tower. Image c\/o Wikimedia There was significant interest from the law students, most of which were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6300,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-723","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-preview"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4RYx6-bF","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":793,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723\/revisions\/793"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/perma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}