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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 […]
Now Online: The January/February 2011 Edition of CLIR Issues
Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, News
|Articles In The Latest Issue (no. 79) Include: Extent of Orphan Works Examined in New Publication Series CLIR has launched a new publication series, “Ruminations.” The series will feature short research papers and essays that bring new perspective to issues related to planning for and managing organizational and institutional change in the evolving digital environment […]
"Special 301 Report: Publishers Submit Annual Review of Global Intellectual Property Protection to USTR"
Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Publishing
|From an Association of American Publisher’s Announcement: “The Association of American Publishers (AAP), through the International Intellectual Property Alliance (IIPA), today submitted its annual Special 301 Report to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). The report details issues related to intellectual property rights protection and market access in a number of foreign […]
You’ll now find a QR code on the right side of each record in the InfoKat database. Users can simply scan the code and receive, “significant details for locating the book in the Libraries’ collections and the descriptive information of the item (e.g., title, author, publisher).” Here are a couple of records from InfoKat. 1 […]
From an NTIA Announcement: The National Broadband Map — the first public, searchable nationwide map of broadband Internet availability — and the results of a new nationwide survey on broadband adoption [was released on February 17, 2011]. The National Broadband Map…is an unprecedented searchable database of information on high-speed Internet access. NTIA created the National […]
From an OAS (Organization of American States) News Release: The Executive Secretariat for Integral Development of the Organization of American States (OAS) today officially launched the Database of Migration Legislation in the Americas (MILEX), as part of an effort to promote a better understanding of migration phenomena with a comprehensive, objective, and long-term approach to […]
Matt McGee from Search Engine Land Writes: Your friends’ activity on Twitter, Flickr and elsewhere — but for now, not Facebook — will soon be a lot more visible in Google’s search results, including having an impact on how pages rank. Google has announced an expansion of its Google Social Search results that’s beginning to […]
From The Bookseller: More people aged over 55 own e-readers than the younger generation, according to a new study on digital reading habits. Data released by research company OnePoll shows 6% of readers in the over-55 category–equivalent to 500,000 people–own a digital device to consume literature in comparison to just 5% of those aged 18–24. […]
Editorial From a Canadian Newspaper: "Libraries Can Lead Us Into a Digital Future"
Academic Libraries, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
|This editorial was published today in the Nanaimo (British Columbia) Daily News and is also posted on Canada.com. The headline is wonderful to read but the actual article needs some work. The editorial focuses on the public libraries of the Vancouver Island Regional Library. Libraries are becoming a less important source of reference material. 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 […]