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Information Today
April 11, 2011 |
Library Copyright Alliance Releases Analysis of the Google Books Settlement Rejection The LCA comprises the American Library Association, the Association of Research Libraries, and the Association of College and Research Libraries.   |
T.H.E. Journal
October 2005 |
Library of Congress Launches Website The Library of Congress has launched a Web site to cover the work of a special independent committee that is recommending changes to section 108 of the Copyright Act. |
Information Today
April 30, 2015 |
ARL Announces Copyright Policy Coalition The Association of Research Libraries (ARL), American Library Association, Center for Democracy & Technology, and seven other organizations launched the Re:create coalition for promoting balanced copyright policy. |
Information Today
October 5, 2009 |
New Report on Filings in the Google Books Settlement The Association of Research Libraries, the American Library Association, and the Association of College and Research Libraries have issued a report that summarizes information about the filings that have been submitted to the federal district court presiding over the Google Books litigation. |
Information Today
February 23, 2009 |
Library Associations Oppose Repealing Public Access Bill, Urge Action The library groups say that the bill would amend the U.S. Copyright Code, prohibiting federal agencies from requiring, as a condition of funding agreements, public access to the products of the research they fund. |
Information Today
March 31, 2011
George H. Pike |
Google Book Settlement Rejected: What's Next? Last week's rejection of the proposed settlement of the lawsuit between Google and a group of authors and publishers has thrown the future of the Google Book database into question. |
Information Today
February 2006
K. Matthew Dames |
Intellectual Property: Library Schools and the Copyright Knowledge Gap From digitization projects to interlibrary loan and from electronic reserves to electronic books, copyright law is having an impact on librarianship. |
Information Today
September 12, 2011
George H. Pike |
Orphan Works Project to Scan Library Books for Online Database This Orphan Works Project could result in digital access to millions of out-of-print books, but it also runs a risk of violating federal copyright laws. |
Salon.com
August 31, 2001
Damien Cave |
Copywrong? A government report giving the Digital Millennium Copyright Act a passing grade is a disaster for the general public, say critics... |
Information Today
August 27, 2009
Paula J. Hane |
Anti Google Book Settlement Organizations Band Together in Open Book Alliance The countdown to the Oct. 7 court hearing on the Google Book settlement is on. |
Information Today
September 22, 2011
Nancy K. Herther |
Authors Take Libraries to Court in Face Off on Copyright Issues On Sept. 12, eight authors -- including James Shapiro and Fay Weldon -- along with three key organizations representing authors in North America and Australia -- filed suit to stop academic libraries from their participation in HathiTrust digitization projects |
Information Today
January 25, 2010 |
Open Book Alliance Urges a Public Guardian for Digital Book Database--Not Google The Open Book Alliance has asked Congress to help establish a digital book database that provides greater access to books, respects the rights of authors and publishers, and doesn't grant undue power to any single company. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2013
Chris Thompson |
Harvard's Alternative to Google Books Universities launch a digital public library which will archive every book in the public domain and offer them online to anyone. The library's prototype is expected to launch this year. |
Information Today
June 6, 2011
Barbara Quint |
University of Michigan Libraries Target HathiTrust's Orphan Works Orphan works have been a thorn in the side of librarians, particularly academic librarians, forever. Orphans are in-copyright works for which current copyright holders are difficult or impossible to locate or perhaps even identify. |
Information Today
December 11, 2014 |
LIBLICENSE Model License Agreement Gets a Makeover This updated license incorporates library best practices as well as advice from legal and publishing professionals. |
Information Today
April 14, 2011 |
ALA Releases 'The State of America's Libraries, 2011' The Great Recession may have come to an end, but hard-pressed Americans continue to turn to their local libraries for help in finding a job or launching their own business. This is one trend listed in the report. |
Information Today
September 5, 2013 |
Polaris Streamlines ILS Migration Quality assurance and new structure for the implementations team helped Polaris Library Systems streamline its integrated library system migration process. |
Information Today
February 3, 2015 |
ALA Educates Libraries About the E-rate Program The American Library Association launched the Got E-rate? initiative, which encourages library leaders to apply for internet discounts as part of the E-rate program. |
Information Today
July 23, 2015 |
Innovative Publishes Report on Libraries and the Web Innovative released a survey report of 4,000-plus academic library users in the U.K. |
Information Today
August 6, 2009 |
Library Groups Advise DOJ on Google Book Settlement The groups requested the Antitrust Division to advise the court presiding over the Google Book Settlement to supervise the implementation of the settlement closely, particularly the pricing of institutional subscriptions and the selection of the Book Rights Registry board members. |
Information Today
September 8, 2008
Barbara Quint |
Solving Copyright Issues Book by Book: OCLC's WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry OCLC is in the third month of a 6-month pilot project testing a WorldCat Copyright Evidence Registry. Librarians will have an opportunity to record efforts they have conducted to identify copyright status for sharing with colleagues and the public |
Information Today
April 28, 2015
Barbie E. Keiser |
National Library Week 2015 Celebrates Unlimited Possibilities @ Your Library The American Library Association provides libraries with marketing collateral (e.g., posters, sample press releases, badges, and images for promotion on social media) and programming ideas. |
Information Today
October 30, 2014 |
ARL Produces Statistics Publications The Association of Research Libraries rolled out three publications that describe library statistics. |
Information Today
December 16, 2014 |
E-Rate Program Increases Broadband Budget The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) approved an E-rate program modernization order that will expand public libraries' broadband access. |
Information Today
July 17, 2008 |
New Report on Copyright Law and Digital Preservation The Library of Congress, through its National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) has issued a joint report on the impact of copyright law on digital preservation. |
Information Today
August 26, 2010 |
"Geek the Library" Campaign Now Available to All U.S. Libraries The campaign is designed to highlight the vital role of public libraries in today's challenging economic environment and to increase local library support. |
Information Today
November 19, 2013
George H. Pike |
Google's Fair Use Defense Prevails in Google Books Lawsuit A federal court in New York gave Google a huge victory that may likely end its 9-year fight with the Authors Guild and individual authors over the Google Books scanning project. |
Information Today
April 18, 2013 |
New OCLC Registry Service Shines a Spotlight on Libraries OCLC announced that libraries can increase their visibility on the web by registering basic local information with the OCLC Library Spotlight program, a free service that works with popular web services to promote libraries. |
Information Today
June 9, 2015 |
U.S. Copyright Office Report Addresses Orphan Works and Mass Digitization The U.S. Copyright Office documented the problems that occur when using orphan works and engaging in mass digitization projects. |
InternetNews
August 31, 2009 |
EU Commissioner Praises Google Books Project Official praise from overseas as controversial settlement with authors and publishers head to court in United States. |
Information Today
January 13, 2015 |
OCLC and the British Library Team Up for Document Delivery OCLC's WorldShare Interlibrary Loan is now fully integrated with the British Library Document Supply Service to give libraries a new option for document delivery. |
Information Today
March 25, 2013
George H. Pike |
A 'Total Victory' for the First Sale Doctrine from the Supreme Court In a powerful and conclusive opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court declared that copyright's First Sale doctrine applies to all legal copyrighted works regardless of where they are manufactured. |
InternetNews
September 25, 2009 |
Judge's Order Keeps Google Books in Limbo New York judge postpones fairness hearing for controversial settlement agreement in response to DoJ objections. |
Information Today
April 17, 2008 |
ALA Releases `The State of America's Libraries' Report Libraries of all kinds continue to be "engines of learning, literacy, and economic development in communities nationwide." |
ONLINE
Nov./Dec. 2006
Marydee Ojala |
The HomePage - Perspectives, Perceptions, and Periscopes Librarians share the same perspective when naming their type of library. Perceptions of libraries, however, differ, depending on perspective. |
InternetNews
September 8, 2009 |
EU Officials Offer Tepid Praise for Google Books Commissioners call for reform of European copyright laws so that projects like Google's Book Search could be implemented swiftly and fairly. |
Search Engine Watch
November 22, 2005
Sullivan & Price |
World Digital Library Project Announced, Backed by Library of Congress & Google The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library, a project that's also received its first $3 million in funding from Google. |
Information Today
August 27, 2015 |
IFLA Statement Encourages Advocacy for Patron Privacy The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions released the "IFLA Statement on Privacy in the Library Environment." |
Information Today
February 12, 2007
Barbie E. Keiser |
EPA Libraries: Where Do They Stand Now? Much has transpired in the year since our last NewsBreak concerning the closure of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency libraries. |
Information Today
June 26, 2008
Barbara Quint |
1923--1963: Google Book Search Targeting More Books for Public Domain? Before 1923, all library partners in the program let Google's mass digitization program grind away, but only a handful of library partners will risk letting post-1923, probably in-copyright material from their collections into the program. |
Information Today
October 15, 2012
Karen Coyle |
HathiTrust Lawsuit Decision Reaffirms Libraries in the Digital Age Judge Harold Baer Jr. of the U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, in his decision in Authors Guild v. HathiTrust decided firmly on the side of HathiTrust and, in particular, on its fair use defense. |
Information Today
August 15, 2005
Barbara Quint |
Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program. |
Information Today
April 15, 2014
Barbie E. Keiser |
National Library Week 2014: Lives Change @ Your Library The United States has celebrated National Library Week during the second week of April (aka School Library Month) since 1958. This year, it's being celebrated April 13-19, with author Judy Blume serving as honorary chair. |
Information Today
January 14, 2016 |
EBSCO Gives Libraries Incentives to Step Toward Solar EBSCO Information Services created a grant initiative (totaling $150,000) to help libraries adopt solar power. |
Searcher
April 2007
Grogg & Ashmore |
Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project. |
InternetNews
February 5, 2010 |
DoJ Still Wary About Google Book Settlement Federal attorneys say amended settlement still doesn't address fundamental antitrust and copyright concerns. |
D-Lib
June 2008 |
A New Website Devoted to Envisioning the Future of Libraries In an information world in which Google apparently offers us everything, what place is there for the traditional, and even the digital, library? |
Information Today
November 14, 2011 |
IFLA Launches New Webpages on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions Copyright exceptions enable libraries to preserve and make available works. In many countries they have been established in the print era and not been updated to meet the needs of the digital age. |
InternetNews
November 22, 2005
Susan Kuchinskas |
Google Gift to Help Digitize World The search giant donates $3 million to the Library of Congress to jumpstart the World Digital Library. Google would not be an exclusive vendor for that scanning project, and the resulting database would be open to indexing by other search engines. |
Information Today
August 18, 2008 |
WebJunction Launches New Social Learning Site OCLC announced that WebJunction, the online learning community for librarians and library staff, has launched a new social and learning experience |
