MORE 'DIGITAL-PRESERVATION' POSTS
Open Book Alliance on "The Google Book Settlement – One Year and Still Waiting"
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Preservation, News
A commentary by the OBA placed online today looks at what has changed, what has not changed, and asks, “where are we today” in terms of the Google Book Settlement. One Example From the What Has Changed Portion of the Article As Publishers Weekly noted, “Google eBooks overnight becomes the largest e-book provider in the […]
From a FDLP (Federal Depostitory Library News) Article: The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and the Library of Congress (LOC) recently received approval from the Joint Committee on Printing (JCP) to proceed on two collaborative efforts. One project involves the digitization of some of our nation’s most important legal and legislative documents and the other […]
"Students Scan Textbooks to Skirt Cost"
| Academic Libraries, Digital Preservation, Libraries, School Libraries
From a Daily Oklahoman Article (University of Oklahoma): Bizzell Memorial Library owns two scanners — called Knowledge Imaging Centers — that allow students to scan pages and save them directly to an external hard drive, costing the user nothing. Some have been abusing the privilege though, scanning whole chapters and textbooks instead of buying them. […]
From a Scientific American Article: Data are the common currency that unites all fields of science. As science progresses data proliferate, providing points of reference, revealing trends, and offering evidence to substantiate hypotheses. Decades into the digitization of science, however, data proliferate exponentially, at times threatening to drown knowledge and information in a sea of […]
