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  The library on a massive scale – HathiTrust

  772 readers Interesting article in Campus Technology about the HathiTrust: What do you get when you combine the collections from 60 major research institutions into a single, digitized library? A comprehensive collection, of course, but also a major headache for the people who have to collect, organize, preserve, and publish the information in a

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  With Google Settlement in Limbo, Universities Press Ahead With Research on Digitized Books

  1861 readersFrom a Chronicle of Higher Ed. Report by Marc Perry: With the Google project in legal limbo, Indiana University and the University of Illinois are moving forward with plans to set up a similar research center [HathiTrust Research Center for Computational Access to Archives] built around the archive maintained by the HathiTrust Digital Library, which

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  Harvard Library to Deposit 200,000 Volumes in HathiTrust

  621 readers From the press release: The Harvard Library will deposit approximately 200,000 public domain volumes in HathiTrust, a shared digital repository for published materials. This follows Harvard’s first deposit of approximately 53,000 volumes in HathiTrust in 2011. “The Harvard Library is committed to collaboration and easing access to its materials. Partnerships like this create significant opportunities for

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  University of Michigan Libraries: MLibrary Begins “First Serious Effort” to Identify Orphan Works in HathiTrust

  1486 readersFrom a University of Michigan Library’s Copyright Office Announcement: The University of Michigan Library’s Copyright Office is launching the first serious effort to identify orphan works among the in-copyright holdings of the HathiTrust Digital Library, which is funding the project. The vast majority of HathiTrust’s holdings are in-copyright (73%). An unknown percentage of these are

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  Library Copyright Alliance statement on Authors Guild suit – case has no merit

  3435 readers From the Association of Research Librarians site here is the LCA statement in full: LCA Statement on Authors Guild, Inc., et al. v. HathiTrust et al. Washington, DC—Today, the Library Copyright Alliance (LCA) released the following statement concerning the lawsuit, Authors Guild, Inc., et al. v. HathiTrust et al., against HathiTrust and its research library partners. We are

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  Pew Internet Releases New Report: “Libraries, Patrons, and E-books”

  617 readersIn early April the Pew Internet & American Life Project released a report about about ebook usage in the United States. Although libraries were mentioned/discussed throughout this report, the primary focus of the report was not libraries. Today, Pew Internet is out with a NEW report that focuses solely on library patron (public library patrons

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  Colleges Lock Books and Images Away From Scholars

  1103 readersThe Chronicle for Higher Education reports on a major casualty to the copyright and orphan works confusion: Academia.  Colleges with incredible treasure-troves of digital material, mostly photographs and recordings, but books as well, are afraid of making those materials available to scholars. Wide online access is curtailed, in part because they contain “orphan works,” whose

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  Colleges Lock Books and Images Away From Scholars

  1647 readersThe Chronicle for Higher Education reports on a major casualty to the copyright and orphan works confusion: Academia.  Colleges with incredible treasure-troves of digital material, mostly photographs and recordings, but books as well, are afraid of making those materials available to scholars. Wide online access is curtailed, in part because they contain “orphan works,” whose

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  Welsh libraries and Web 2.0

  1115 readersThis report is a snap-shot of the views of librarians of the use of Web 2.0 in libraries in Wales From the Executive Summary: This report into access to and use of various Web 2.0 applications in libraries in Wales has found some commonalities across the library sectors, as well as differences. Staff in many

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  Egyptian youth protect Alexandrian library from vandals

  1561 readersMost people are probably aware by now of the turmoil going on over in Egypt, with the government cutting off all Internet access as part of its effort to stay in control. While much of this is outside the scope of TeleRead’s coverage, this is not: National Geographics’s News Watch blog, reposts a letter of