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Google Book Settlement Rejected: Press Review, Comments, and Resources
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Funding, Interactive Tools, Interviews, Libraries, National Libraries, News, Open Access, Patrons and Users, Profiles, Public Libraries, Publishing
|UPDATED (March 27, 2011, 10:30pm EDST) Recent Additions “Doing Google Books Right” (by David Weinberger, Joho the Blog) Now it seems it’ll be up to Congress to address the orphaned works problem. But given Congress’ maniacal death-grip on copyright, it seems unlikely that common sense will have any effect and our culture will continue to […]
From an Article by Jane Palmer, Omaha World-Herald: Being interested in subjects as diverse as science, math, history, theater and music can make it hard to select a career, but Gary Wasdin found one as a librarian. Since January 2010, he has been the executive director of the Omaha Public Library. “My personal interests are […]
Video: "An Interview with Robert Darnton on the Digital Public Library of America"
Academic Libraries, Interviews, Libraries, News, Open Access, Profiles, Public Libraries
|Randall Stephens, Professor of History at Eastern Nazarene College and Editor of The Historical Society blog talks with the Director of the Harvard University Library, Professor Robert Darnton, about the Digital Public Library of America that’s in the currently in the planning stages. The video interview (in two segments) runs about 20 minutes. In a […]
From an Article by Jeremy Olshan, New York Post: While most New Yorkers keep just a few dozen restaurant menus in a kitchen drawer, the library has more than 40,000 in its stacks, listing eats ranging from the 1843 fare at the Astor House to the 2010 offerings at Chipotle. “It’s a record of what […]
E-Book Lending Takes Off
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|E-Book Lending Takes Off Electronic-book lending isn’t just for friends anymore. In the past few months, online clubs with such names as BookLending.com and Lendle.me have proliferated. The sites, some of which have gathered thousands of users, allow strangers to borrow and lend e-books for Amazon.com Inc.’s Kindle and Barnes & Noble Inc.’s Nook free. […]
"Ontario's history goes digital"
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|From an Article in the Ottawa Citizen: An article about the Knowledge Ontario’s Community Digitization Project (CDP). The CDP is the result of a $15-million grant from the Ontario Ministry of Tourism and Culture to the Southern Ontario Library Services and Ontario Library Services North. The project began in August 2009 after Our Ontario, the […]
From a NYPL Blog Post by Peter Bengston, Central Collection Development The recent activities of Wikileaks and Julian Assange have once again reignited the controversy of the degree to which the public has a right to unfettered access to government information. This year, Freedom of Information Day is being observed nationally on March 16. The […]
More Libraries and Librarians Weigh In On eBook Lending Limits (Roundup 2)
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|All but one of the articles linked in this post were published on May 7th and May 8th. + “Open Letter to HarperCollins” (From the San Rafael Public Library, via Librarian in Black) + “Maine libraries upset about HarperCollins’ eBook lending limits” (via The Forecaster, Portland Maine) Maine InfoNet Executive Director James Sanborn said the […]
Cory Doctorow On "eBooks: Durability is a Feature, Not a Bug"
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|Cory Doctorow, author, free-speech/info access zealot, a very mportant friend of libraries/librarians, and an editor at BoingBoing, has had an article about ebooks and the HarperCollins situation published in The Guardian. Here are a few sentences from Doctorow’s must read column: “Ebooks have loads of demerits, especially as they are marketed to libraries. They are […]
Tennessee: "New Online Archive Displays Vast Collections of Library's Memphis Room"
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|From a Memphis Commercial Appeal Article: If you are interested in a sepia-toned photo of the 1932 graduating class of Central High School or an 1836 letter from William Andusentte of New Orleans to Britton Duke of Germantown regarding cotton prices, you can put on your shoes and button up your coat before heading to […]