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"Ruling Spurs Effort to Form Digital Public Library"
Archives and Special Collections, Digital Collections, Funding, Libraries, Public Libraries, Resources
|From a New York Times Article by Miguel Helft: The lofty effort, the Digital Public Library of America, counts a long list of heavyweights among its supporters, including librarians from major universities and officials from the National Archives and the Library of Congress. Some of the nation’s largest philanthropic foundations have said they were interested […]
Report from ACRL 2011: "Librarians Talk Google Books, Orphan Works, and What’s Next"
Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Libraries, News, Public Libraries
|From a Wired Campus/Chronicle of Higher Ed Post by Jennifer Howard: Librarians are especially keen to figure out what to do about orphan works, which are under copyright but whose rights owners can’t be identified or found. Who gets to make use of those works has been a big issue in the Google case. “Many […]
From the Norwich Bulletin: The threatened elimination of a statewide inter-library delivery service has librarians such as Kate Byroade, director of Cragin Memorial Library in Colchester, concerned. The service, called Connecticar, provides a statewide delivery service to 225 public and academic libraries. If a resident borrows an item from any public or academic library, it […]
New York City: "Three Renowned Research Libraries Join Forces To Better Serve Users"
Academic Libraries, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
|From an NYPL News Release: The New York Public Library and the libraries of Columbia University and New York University—three renowned research institutions all on the island of Manhattan—have launched an initiative to expand collections and better serve their users. The collaboration, dubbed the Manhattan Research Library Initiative, or MaRLI, will help the institutions increase […]
Video: OverDrive Founder and CEO Steve Potash Interviewed on Bloomberg TV
Companies (Publishers/Vendors), Libraries, Public Libraries, Publishing
|Steve Potash appeared on Bloomberg Television earlier today and the nearly four minute is now accessible online. You can watch the segment on the Bloomberg web site It runs about 4 minutes. As you might expect the HarperCollins story is touched on as is GBS. In a nutshell: + “Since Christmas, we’ve seen almost 100 […]
From The Oregonian: Starting today, local readers will have access to 23,000 more e-books as the library introduces a new streaming e-book collection. With a library card and a pin number the e-books can read online from any computer and they don’t expire because the books aren’t downloaded but streamed. There’s no software to download […]
Detroit Metro: "Odds Stacked Against Libraries as Cities Feel Pinch"
Funding, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
|From an Article by Jackie Steele (Detroit News): The Troy, MI and Romulus, MI Public Libraries will close on May 1, 2011. The doors will be locked and at least at the moment now plans as to if/when things might change. The May 1 closing of the 40,000-square-foot, 49-year-old Troy Public Library, one of the […]
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 […]