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Information Today
May 19, 2011 |
Library Copyright Alliance Releases Statement on Copyright Reform Libraries have always advocated for reasonable copyright policy -- in the courts as well as in the U.S. Congress.   |
Information Today
October 30, 2014 |
ARL Produces Statistics Publications The Association of Research Libraries rolled out three publications that describe library statistics. |
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
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. |
Information Today
November 19, 2009 |
International Activists Launch New Copyright Watch Website The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), Electronic Information for Libraries, and other international copyright experts joined together to launch a public website created to centralize resources on national copyright laws. |
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
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. |
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 18, 2014 |
ALA and CDT Pen Missive on Net Neutrality The American Library Association and the Center for Democracy & Technology issued a letter to the Federal Communications Commission that advocates for strong, enforceable Net Neutrality |
Information Today
March 10, 2015
Abby Clobridge |
'Every Week Is Fair Use Week' Similar to Open Access Week, Fair Use Week is a loosely organized, week long event during which libraries, universities, museums, archives, and individuals raise awareness about fair use. |
Information Today
May 3, 2010
Paula J. Hane |
Celebrating Libraries and Promoting Choose Privacy Week (May 2-8) Choose Privacy Week, which takes place May 2-8, 2010, is about bringing information privacy issues out into the open and discussing them - and libraries are the perfect places for those conversations to take place. |
Information Today
July 29, 2014 |
ALA Survey Reveals Statistics on Technology in Libraries The survey found that almost 100% of U.S. public libraries provide workforce development training programs, online resources for finding jobs, and other technology skills training. |
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
April 16, 2007 |
Stanford Launches Copyright Renewal Database The database is designed to be a tool for anyone researching the copyright status of books. |
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 15, 2014
Barbie E. Keiser |
WIPO Considers Changes to Broadcasting Copyrights Recently the World Intellectual Property Organization Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights met in order to discuss its Treaty on the Protection of Broadcasting Organizations, which could be enforced by 2015. |
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
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. |
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
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
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
August 26, 2014
Abby Clobridge |
New MOOC Teaches Educators and Librarians About Copyright Copyright for Educators & Librarians is one of a few new courses directly related to the work of librarians and information professionals. |
Information Today
June 14, 2010 |
Support for Public Access to Oil Leak Monitoring Data Almost 40 organizations led by OpenTheGovernment.org and including a number of library associations, joined in sending a letter to President Obama urging him to give the public access to all monitoring data. |
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
March 28, 2013 |
EveryoneOn Launches to Promote Digital Literacy March 21, 2013 marked the launch of Everyone On -- a national campaign to promote the importance of digital literacy skills and increase access to computer and internet training. |
Macworld
February 2001
Philip Michaels |
Copyright Program Simplifies Paperwork Official Copyright 1.5 is a great source of copyright information, offering a tutorial on copyright issues and an efficient search feature that helps you find the right form. But the registration process is where Official Copyright really earns its keep... |
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
March 2, 2009 |
ARL Calls on OCLC to Develop New Policy for WorldCat Records The Association of Research Libraries Ad Hoc Task Force to Review the Proposed OCLC Policy for Use and Transfer of WorldCat Records has issued its final report, which calls on OCLC to develop a new policy to replace the one released in November 2008 |
Information Today
April 4, 2011
Paula J. Hane |
Library Ebook Lending Under Attack The options libraries have are poor and our customers are frustrated. There are numerous restrictions on lending, device incompatibilities, proprietary systems, interface issues, privacy issues, and more. |
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. |
InternetNews
May 18, 2007
Clint Boulton |
Will Copyright Alliance's Wax Trigger YouTube's Wane? YouTubes of the world be warned. This coalition vows to uphold and enforce copyright laws under the First Amendment. |
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
October 31, 2013 |
LPC Debuts Library Publishing Directory The Library Publishing Coalition published the first edition of its Library Publishing Directory, which provides an overview of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries. |
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
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
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
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." |
Information Today
March 14, 2011 |
Organizations Support Free Online Access to CRS Reports More than 30 organizations sent a letter to the U.S. Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington, urging him to appoint a Director of the Congressional Research Service who will work with Congress to provide online free public access to the unclassified, non-confidential, taxpayer-funded reports. |
Information Today
August 9, 2010 |
ARL Promotes Member Use of Large-Scale Digitization Principles Special collections often include valuable and unique materials, but also incur special responsibilities for their stewards. |
Entrepreneur
November 2006
Nichole L. Torres |
Beyond the Books Take advantage of the business resources your local library has to offer. |
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
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
July 2, 2007 |
Copyright Clearance Center Announces Annual License for Academia By preapproving the use of content, the Annual Copyright License is designed to save library staff valuable time and reduce the costs associated with tracking and managing high volumes of individual copyright permission requests. |
Information Today
August 13, 2012 |
ALA Releases Report on Ebook Business Models for Public Libraries The report, which was created by the ALA Digital Content and Libraries Working Group, suggests opportunities for publishers to showcase content through public libraries. |
D-Lib
June 2005
Bonita Wilson |
Time to Reflect Revolutionary progress is possible in the field of digital research, despite day-to-day challenges. |
D-Lib
August 2005
William Y. Arms |
A Viewpoint Analysis of the Digital Library Should digital libraries be encouraged to develop independently or together? |
Information Today
September 14, 2009 |
IMLS Grant Will Help Libraries Help the Unemployed Job seekers have packed libraries around the country during recent months, searching online job sites, building resumes, making use of a wide range of other employment services and resources. More help is on the way. |
Information Today
April 8, 2014 |
Associations Team Up for Research-Tracking Service The Association of Research Libraries received a joint $1 million grant from IMLS (Institute of Museum and Library Services) and the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, which will help ARL develop and launch the SHared Access Research Ecosystem. |
Information Today
October 7, 2014
Nancy K. Herther |
European Law Works to Move Copyright Into the 21st Century The European Court of Justice ruled that libraries, "for the purpose of research or private study," can digitize works as a legitimate fair use exemption to European Union copyright law, with some specific limitations. |
InternetNews
August 9, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Google Book Project Signs UC Pact Google's effort to index library books turned another page with the addition of the University of California to its Print Library Project. |
