Category Archives: Digital Issues

A Failure to Understand, Part I

Posted on June 21, 2010 by madlib

Quoted in entirety, the AALL Action Alert that came out today: AALL ACTION ALERT June 21, 2010 IMMEDIATE ACTION NEEDED: Call your Senators and urge them to vote NO on Coburn Amendment No. 4331 On Thursday June 17, Sen. Tom … Continue reading →

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News, community and the hyper-local

Posted on June 15, 2010 by madlib

On Tuesday, at SLA, I attended a rather interesting panel: State of the Revolution: Constant innovation in the local news landscape While the format adapts and morphs – journalism will endure. The news just keeps coming. The question is: what … Continue reading →

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Bad maps, mushrooms and the Shallows

Posted on June 15, 2010 by madlib

I am in New Orleans for the Special Libraries Association’s Annual Meeting. One of the things I’m looking forward to (besides the food and seeing old friends, of course) is hearing the remarks of keynote speaker Nicholas Carr.  Carr has … Continue reading →

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Latest battle in the ongoing Serials Crisis

Posted on June 8, 2010 by madlib

I have to admit, I wasn’t able to keep track of a lot of library news and trends while I was in law school.  So … the news that the serials crisis has reared its head again (if it ever … Continue reading →

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Sony & EFF come to an understanding

Posted on December 30, 2005 by madlib

The Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced a prelim settlement with Sony BMG: “Sony agreed to stop production of these flawed and ineffective DRM technologies,‚Äù noted EFF Staff Attorney Kurt Opsahl. ‚ÄúWe hope that other record labels will learn from Sony‚Äôs … Continue reading →

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Yahoo! goes into digitization biz (with a little help from the Internet Archive and UC)

Posted on October 2, 2005 by madlib

It’s official: An unusual alliance of corporations, nonprofit groups and universities plans to announce today an ambitious plan to digitize hundreds of thousands of books over the next several years and put them on the Internet, with the full text … Continue reading →

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Internet Archive working on Katrina archive

Posted on September 5, 2005 by madlib

The Internet Archive is going to start a special crawl devoted to Hurricane Katrina and post-Katrina websites. Many librarian blogs and mailing lists have shared numerous resources. Which ones would you like to see archived? Feel free to post below … Continue reading →

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Google blinks

Posted on August 12, 2005 by madlib

It’s not 6 months, but it is a hiatus: the Google Print project is holding off of scanning copyrighted works until November 1st. After Nov. 1, Google will supposedly implement an opt-out program for publishers/rights holders who don’t want their … Continue reading →

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Eeek …

Posted on July 13, 2005 by madlib

Well, it looks like the Archive is being sued. I have no other info than what’s in the article …

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Check this out …

Posted on June 17, 2005 by madlib

Jessamyn already has the links and has already started parsing out the details for us, but you should get your own copy of the contract between Google and UMich [PDF file] for the digitization of its collections here. This is … Continue reading →

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