April 19, 2024 by Gary Price
We will update this post with additional materials and coverage if/when they become available. Update 4/22 Internet Archive Files Final Appeal Brief in Book Scanning Case (Updated April 22, 2024; via Publisher’s Weekly) Today, the Internet Archive filed their reply brief in the appeal of the Hachette Book Group, et al, v. Internet Archive decision. […]
April 19, 2024 by Gary Price
California Oakland’s Main Library Will Soon Close For Six Months For Repairs (via SF Chronicle) Iowa Legal Filing By PEN America Urges Appeals Court to Uphold Injunction Against Iowa’s Book Ban Law Libraries Listen to a Radio Interview with ALA President Emily Drabinksi: (America’s Top Librarian Says ‘We’re Fighting For Our Lives’ (via WBEZ) Open […]
April 17, 2024 by Gary Price
From a Library of Congress Blog Post: The South Asian Digital Collection (SADC) is the new online home for the Library’s digitized books, serials, and manuscripts related to the histories and cultures of South Asian countries (i.e., Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka). The creation of SADC will provide easy access to a variety […]
April 16, 2024 by Gary Price
From the US GPO: The U.S. Government Publishing Office (GPO) has added historical volumes of the United States Statutes at Large (Statutes at Large) to GovInfo, the one-stop site for authentic, published information for all three branches of the Federal Government. The newly added Volumes 1–64 (1789–1950) date back to 1789 and include the text of […]
April 16, 2024 by Gary Price
From the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH): The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced $26.2 million in grants for 238 humanities projects across the country. Grants awarded today will underwrite a new permanent exhibition at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh on how the Nile River shaped ancient Egyptians’ ideas of […]
April 13, 2024 by Gary Price
From a National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) Post: A new state-of-the-art digitization center at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) in College Park, Maryland, is allowing the agency to provide greater public access to the country’s most important historical federal government records faster than ever before. Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen, Representative Steny […]
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April 6, 2024 by Gary Price
From Kauai Now: New technology has been implemented at the state’s public libraries to make checking out materials faster and more convenient. The news was first announced in a Wednesday press release from the Hawaiʻi State Public Library System. “We’re now able to check out stacks of books, CDs, DVDs and other materials at one time […]
April 1, 2024 by Gary Price
From University of Kentucky Libraries: University of Kentucky Libraries’ Special Collections Research Center is home to a remarkable collection that may drive Kentuckians to defend – or decapitate – a king. The French Revolution Publications Collection consists of nearly 5000 political bulletins, printed from the beginning of the long and bloody French Revolution through the ascendancy of Napoleon Bonaparte, […]
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March 28, 2024 by Gary Price
From The Harvard Crimson: The Caselaw Access Project published nearly seven million cases from the Harvard Law School’s collections online on March 8, concluding a nine-year process to digitize the HLS Library’s archive of court cases. The Caselaw Access Project, also known as CAP, aimed “to make all published U.S. court decisions freely available to […]
March 22, 2024 by Gary Price
From a NISO Announcement: The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced today that its draft Interoperable System of Controlled Digital Lending (IS-CDL) Recommended Practice (NISO RP-44-202X) is now available for public comment through April 21 at the project website. Libraries often need to lend digital surrogates of print content from their collections for various reasons, […]