MORE POSTS FROM APRIL 2013
From The Art Newspaper: Museums will have to pay upfront for orphan images, or images whose copyright owners cannot be found, after an amendment to the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill to limit proposals was narrowly defeated in the House of Lords. Several members condemned the government’s plans, which require holders of orphan works to […]
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 […]
E-Reserves: Library Copyright Alliance (ALA, ARL, and ACRL) Files Amicus Brief in Georgia State University Appeal
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|The amicus brief was filed today by the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) on behalf of the Library Copyright Alliance (ALA, ARL, and ACRL). The full text is brief is embedded below or available here. A summary of the brief can be found in this EFF blog post. GSU Amicus Brief Filed by Library Copyright Alliance […]
Amazon.com’s Q1 2013 earnings announcement released today points out that the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library (KOLL) now provides access to more than 300,000 titles. KOLL launched in early November 2011 with an estimated 5,000 titles. The library allows Kindle owners who subscribe to Amazon Prime to borrow as frequently as a book a month, with no due […]
We love lists. The Universe, student paper at BYU shared the current Top 10 list from the Harold B. Lee Library yesterday. A second list with the most checked-out books from the reading room’s sampler selection is provided in the full article. Top 10 List (Overall) 1. Twilight by Stephanie Meyer 2. Western Literature in a World Context, Vol. 2, […]
We agree with ALA and ARL, very good news. From Brandon Butler at ARL: On Thursday, April 25, the US Senate Judiciary Committee took another crucial step toward fixing outdated privacy laws by endorsing a bill proposed by Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) that includes vital reforms to give appropriate privacy protection to e-mail and cloud […]
From the OverDrive Digital Library Blog: This week, OverDrive and Innovative Interfaces agreed on plans for deep API integration of OverDrive services into III products, including Sierra and Encore Discovery Services Platform. The coming API updates will include the ability to check out and place a hold on eBooks from a library’s online catalog. [Clip] […]
We learned about this recently released web app in a new article from The Signpost. The publication points to a US News article from April 15. Called Wikipedia Live Monitor, Google engineer Thomas Steiner created the tool with the hypothesis that “if a breaking news event is important, it will be reflected on at least […]
From Baker & Taylor: [B&T/collectionHQ] has announced that many of its popular, evidence-based tools available for print and A/V titles are now available for ebooks as well. The addition of these tools, called the ebook module, means that for the first time, librarians can easily access data that compare ebook and print holdings. The ebook […]
From an LC Announcement: Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has announced that Don DeLillo, author of such critically acclaimed novels as “Underworld,” “Mao II” and the National Book Award-winning “White Noise,” will receive the first Library of Congress Prize for American Fiction during the 2013 Library of Congress National Book Festival, Sept. 21-22. This […]