MORE 'TDS' POSTS
Exciting news from JSTOR. From Today’s Announcement: JSTOR is pleased to announce a new Alumni Access program, which enables participating higher education institutions to provide their alumni with access to their JSTOR archive collections. This is an important next step in our ongoing efforts to extend access to scholarship to individuals around the world, and […]
From Media Decoder (NY Times): The Penguin Group plans to announce on Monday that it is expanding its e-book lending program to libraries in Los Angeles and Cleveland and surrounding areas though a new distribution partner. In a pilot program that will begin this year, Penguin has worked with Baker & Taylor, a distributor of […]
Authors Guild Appeals HathiTrust Decision, Library Copyright Alliance Issues Statement
| Associations and Organizations, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Preservation
On November 8, the Authors Guild appealed the verdict in its case against the HathiTrust to the U.S. Court of Appeals Second Circuit. The Guild had filed suit against the Trust in 2011, alleging that the Trust’s digitization efforts constituted copyright infringement. However, on October 10, Judge Baer of the United States District Court Southern […]
From DPLA: The Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) will be partnering with Boston, MA-based interactive agency iFactory to design and develop a prototype front end portal, the companies announced today. iFactory will create a website that will facilitate the creative discovery, sharing, and use of multimedia library materials among the general public. This prototype […]
From an Unglue.it Announcement: Two months after being forced to shut down by Amazon Payments, Unglue.it is relaunching today with a new payments provider, Stripe, and ungluing campaigns for five books. Unglue.it is a crowdfunding platform that supports authors and publishers in releasing free editions of their books. After successfully raising $7500 to make Ruth […]
eBooks: Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners Endorses Statewide Resource Sharing Plan, Pilot Project Coming
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
From the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners: In a single year eBook borrowing at Massachusetts public libraries has more than tripled. Yet some major publishers refuse to do business with libraries, set strict lending limitations, or sell eBooks to libraries at a price two to six times more than the eBooks offered for sale to […]
Digital Public Library of America Receives $1 Million in Funding From Knight Foundation
| Archives and Special Collections, Awards, Digital Collections, Funding, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
From the DPLA Web Site: The Digital Public Library of America—a groundbreaking project that will make content in our nation’s archives and special collections digital, searchable and freely available—will launch pilot projects in seven states with $1 million in funding from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. State libraries and regional digital library […]
The Kindle Owners’ Lending Library debuted in U.S. in early November, 2011 with about 5,000 titles. At last count, over 180,000 titles were available to U.S. KOLL users. Today’s News From Amazon.com: Amazon.com, Inc. today announced that the Kindle Owners’ Lending Library is coming to the UK, Germany and France later this month, bringing Kindle […]
Judge’s Ruling a Win for Fair Use in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust Case
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Awards, Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Preservation, Scholarly Communications
The Honorable Harold Baer, Jr., yesterday held that the HathiTrust’s mass digitization is fair use, in spite of the challenges raised in a lawsuit by the Author’s Guild and others, both associations and individual authors. Crucial to his reading of the case is Baer’s rejection of the plaintiff’s theory that section 108 of the copyright law prevents libraries claiming fair use as a defense. Baer said in his opinion, “I cannot imagine a definition of fair use that would not encompass the transformative uses made by Defendants’ MDP, and would require that I terminate this invaluable contribution to the progress of science and cultivation of the arts that at the same time effectuates the ideals espoused by the ADA.”
eBooks: 3M Announces Support for ReadersFirst Initiative and Launches Open API For ILS Vendors
| Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Management and Leadership, News, Patrons and Users
From a 3M Announcement: Libraries participating in ReadersFirst asked e-content providers to offer products that allow users to search and browse both the physical and digital collections of a library within a single, comprehensive catalog. Additionally, the initiative is seeking solutions that allow users to place holds, check-out items, view availability, manage fines and receive […]
