From The Fort Worth Star-Telegram: There’s a tightrope across the digital divide that nearly 7,000 librarians meeting this week in Fort Worth are crossing, but some aren’t tiptoeing. They’re leaping across the gap and looking for ways to stay at the forefront of a new age in reading. [Clip] Some librarians aren’t willing to let [...]

From the Wikimedia Foundation: A year after its announcement as the first new Wikimedia project since 2006, Wikidata has now begun to serve the over 280 language versions of Wikipedia as a common source of structured data that can be used in more than 25 million articles of the free encyclopedia. By providing Wikipedia editors [...]

From a U.S. House of Rep. Judiciary Committee News Release: Today House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) announced that the Judiciary Committee will conduct a comprehensive review of U.S. copyright law over the coming months. The announcement was made at the World Intellectual Property Day celebration at the Library of Congress. From Rep. Goodlatte’s [...]

The news just broke on the DPLA web site in a post by Dan Cohen, DPLA’s Executive Director. Here’s the Full Text of His Statement: From all of us at the Digital Public Library of America, our hearts go out to those affected by the terrible events in Boston yesterday. The tragedy took place right [...]

OverDrive formally opened their the new 95,000-square-foot headquarters facility (aka “Blue Sky Campus”) last week in Garfield Heights, Ohio (just outside of Cleveland). From the Cleveland Business Journal: The building, which dwarfs the company’s old facility in Valley View, gives OverDrive room to house 300 people. And it will need it, Mr. Potash said while [...]

From The Village Voice: In an agreement announced today, the City of New York will pay more than $365,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by people whose property was destroyed when the New York Police Department raided Zuccotti Park and evicted Occupy Wall Street on Nov. 15, 2011. [Clip] On top of the damage claims, the city [...]

From the Institute of Museum and Library Services Announcement: Today the President released his FY 2014 Budget Request to the U.S. Congress. The budget includes $225,812,538, an increase of 2.7 percent from FY 2013 enacted, for the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). With these funds, IMLS will provide leadership for the nation’s 123,000 [...]

The prototype launch of the Digital Public Library of America will take place in Boston on April 18th. From a Joint DPLA and BHL Announcement: The Biodiversity Heritage Library is pleased to announce that it will serve as a digital content hub within the Digital Public Library of America. As a result of BHL’s participation as a digital [...]