MORE 'DIGITAL-COLLECTIONS' POSTS
Ithaka S+R 'Case Studies in Sustainability' Updates Released
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Open Access, Publishing
|Updated 2011 Case Studies In 2009 Ithaka S+R investigated the sustainability strategies of twelve digital content projects in the higher education and cultural heritage sectors in the US, UK, France, Germany, and Egypt. Two years and one economic crisis later, Ithaka S+R, with the generous support of the JISC-led Strategic Content Alliance, decided to revisit […]
Libraries/Publishing: Congrats to Our Friend and New (Just Announced) Publisher's Weekly Blogger, Peter Brantley
Associations and Organizations, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Publishing
|By Gary Price, C0-Founder and Co-Editor We’re very happy to report that our friend and friend of INFOdocket, Peter Brantley (someone who I’m sure MANY of you know personally), is going to be blogging for Publisher’s Weekly. This new gig is in ADDITION to his job as Director of the Internet Archive’s Bookserver Project. Prior […]
New Issue Online: Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (6.3, 2011)
Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Libraries, Management and Leadership, New Issue, News, Open Access, Publishing
|Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP) is published at the University of Alberta. It’s an open access publication. Direct to Complete Table of Contents Selected Articles Situating Student Learning in Rich Contexts: A Constructionist Approach to Digital Archives Education by Anthony Cocciolo An Examination of Library Anxiety at Cape Breton University by Lenard J. […]
Google Book Settlement: "NY Judge Gives Google, Lawyers More Time to Talk" and Other Notes
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Publishing, Reports
|From the AP: Lawyers for authors, publishers and Google have bought themselves more time in their New York copyright case as they try to reach a new deal that could create the world’s largest digital library. The lawyers told federal Judge Denny Chin in Manhattan on Thursday that they are still negotiating. Full Text AP […]
Interviews With Five Metadata Experts
Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, National Libraries, Profiles, Resources
|DCMI (Dublin Core Metadata Initiative) 2011 Conference gets underway next week in The Hague and the conference web site is home to interviews with DCMI leaders and conference speakers. + Emmanuelle Bermès, Modern Art Museum Centre Pompidou Metadata and semantic web expert Emmanuelle Bermès is a keynote speaker at this year’s Dublin Core conference in […]
The Netflix Model for Books: "Amazon in Talks to Launch Digital-Book Library"
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, EBSCO, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Publishing
|Is the WSJ report linked below on what might become Amazon’s “Netflix like” program the beginning of a new way to access and read ebooks. Perhaps. However, the article has few if any hard facts and Amazon isn’t talking. In fact, the WSJ is clear that they don’t know if any publishers have even signed […]
Digitized Newspapers Are "The Biographers New Best Friend"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Libraries, News
|From a NY Times Op/Ed by Steven Mihm: Several campaigns to digitize newspapers — Readex’s “American Historical Newspapers” available by subscription at research universities, or the free “Chronicling America” collection available at the Library of Congress — have the potential to revolutionize biographical research. Newspapers are often described as the “first draft of history,” and […]
New Member: UConn (University of Connecticut) Libraries Join HathiTrust
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News
|From a UConn News Release: The UConn Libraries have become the newest member of HathiTrust Digital Library, a partnership of major academic and research libraries collaborating to compile a massive digital library of published scholarship. [Clip] “Membership in the HathiTrust takes full advantage of what the Internet Archive and Google Books have done, and places […]
Google Book-Scanning Lawsuit Is Dropped by French Publishers
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Publishing
|From Bloomberg: Three French publishers dropped a 9.8 million-euro ($13.8 million) lawsuit against Google Inc. (GOOG) over books scanned by the search-engine company. Editions Albin Michel SA, Editions Gallimard SA and Flammarion made the decision in order to resume negotiations to reach a deal on scanning copyright-protected works for Google’s digital library. “Google suspended negotiations” […]
HathiTrust Full-Text Index to Be Integrated Into OCLC Services
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|From OCLC: OCLC and HathiTrust have signed an agreement that will allow OCLC to integrate the HathiTrust full-text index into OCLC services, enabling member libraries and their users to more easily discover resources from this important digital collection through WorldCat. Under this new agreement, OCLC will be able to integrate the full-text index of HathiTrust […]