Considerations for Online Age Verification (in the U.S.)
The Congressional Research Service has posted four reports about verifying users’ ages for various services online in the past few months. This is a tricky ...
Policy
Can Google’s New “My Account” Page be a Model for Libraries?
One of the things discussed in the NISO patron privacy conference calls has been the need for transparency with patrons about what information is being gathe...
My View of the NISO Patron Privacy Working Group
<img src="/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/368912557_2fc44d3709_m.jpg" alt=""Privacy Please" by Josh Hallett" width="240" height="161" class="alignright size-f...
The Best of the “SOPA Blackout”
Commentary, intentional and unintentional humor, and media from January 18, 2012
Stop SOPA and Protect-IP
This blog will be present first-time users with a warning page on January 18, 2012 -- the day that many internet sites are using to protest the Stop Online P...
AIME v UCal Decision Says Streaming Equivalent to Public Performance
The title of this post was updated (replacing "Display" with "Performance") a day after it was originally published. See the update at the bottom of the pos...
Google Book Search Settlement Rejected
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Real Life Example of Creative Commons License Applied to MARC Records
Eric Morgan posted a message to the Next Generation Catalog for Libraries mailing list this morning that points to a announcement by the University of Florid...
Interesting Google Book Search Settlement Bits in Advance of Thursday’s Fairness Hearing
Thursday will be a big day in the Google Book Search lawsuit settlement: the parties to the lawsuit, along with the objectors, supporters, and friends-of-th...
The Role of the Library in the Future of Reading
A popular topic coming across my radar screen is the future of reading, and more specifically the role of libraries in the future of reading. Much of commen...
Notes from the OCLC Record Use Policy Council discussion
On Saturday morning of ALA Midwinter 2010, Dr. Jennifer Younger moderated a session on the progress of the OCLC Record Use Policy Council. The meeting start...
Revised Google Book Search Settlement from a Library Perspective
Late, late in the day last Friday, the principle parties in the Google Book Search case submitted a revised settlement agreement agreement to the court. Thi...
OCLC and the Associated Press – Two Sides of the Same Information Provider Coin?
I've run across a striking similarity between the bibliographic utility business and the newswire business, particularly in the area of cooperatives. Two c...
The Internet Comes of Age
Just as it turns 40, the internet comes of age. One day before of the anniversary of the first two computers connected together by a prototype network in 1...
Google Book Search Settlement Hearing Is Likely Postponed
Late today comes word that the plaintiffs (authors and publishers) and defendant (Google) have asked the court to postpone the settlement fairness hearing or...
Comments on Google Book Search Settlement Coming to a Head (Again)
Ah, it is the beginning of September when thoughts turn to going back to school, the days turn a little colder (in the northern hemisphere) and the smell of ...
Federal Research Public Access Act Reintroduced
New legislation was introduced in the U.S. Senate last week to support the publication of federally-sponsored research results under open access terms. Sp...
Google Book Search Privacy, Orphan Works, and Monopoly
A few weeks ago, a reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed Adam Smith, Google's director of product management, about the Google Book Searc...
OCLC Formally Withdraws Proposed Record Use Policy
OCLC has published the final report from the OCLC Review Board on Principles of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship and announced the formal withdrawal of t...
EBSCO in Cahoots With Harvard Business Press
A controversy is starting to pick up in the business librarian community -- primarily in the U.K. it would seem -- regarding the licensing demands of Harvard...
Thompson Reuters Lawsuit Against Zotero Creators Dismissed
Reported by Zotero co-director Sean Takats, tweeted by CHNM director Dan Cohen, and noted on DLTJ by Rick, Thomson-Reuters' lawsuit against George Mason Univ...
Interesting Bits in the Univ of Michigan Amendment to Google Book Search Agreement
On Tuesday, the University of Michigan and Google executed an amendment to the original agreement that started Google's efforts to create a collection of sca...
OCLC Review Board Recommends the Withdraw of Proposed Policy; Advocates for an Open Process
Earlier today, OCLC posted the recording [Flash] and presentation slides [PDF] from Jennifer Younger's presentation to the Members Council updating them on t...
At the Intersection of the OCLC Records Use Policy and the WorldCat Local Cloud-based Library Management Service
Last Friday, Andrew Pace (Executive Director of Networked Library Services for OCLC) was interviewed by Richard Wallis of Talis on OCLC's recent announcement...
OCLC Record Use Policy Issue Coming to a Head
In roughly a week, the OCLC membership through the Members Council will hear of the preliminary findings from the Review Board of Shared Data Creation and St...
Summary of Recent Google Book Search Settlement Activities
Today was to be the deadline for objecting to, opting out of, and/or filing briefs with the court on the Google Book Search Settlement. That was the plan, a...
Library Associations File Amicus Brief for Google Book Search Settlement
The American Library Association (through the Association's Washington Office and the Association of College and Research Libraries Division) and the Associa...
Intervention by IA Denied; Deadline for Objections Extended
New York Judge Denny Chin recently issued two rulings in the Google Book Search settlement. In the first, he ' the request by the Internet Archive to interv...
Letters Begin Flying in Objection to the Proposed Google Book Search Settlement
We are starting to see objections to the Google Book Search Settlement this month in advance of the May 5th deadline set up by the court. The first comes fr...
Survey Responses Sought from the OCLC Review Board on Shared Data Creation and Stewardship
The OCLC Review Board on Shared Data Creation and Stewardship is conducting a survey to gather opinions on OCLC's proposed Policy for Use and Transfer of Wor...
What Does the Google Book Settlement Mean for the Online Book Market?
The blog post title is a serious question -- it is one that I need some help figuring out: What Does the Google Book Settlement Mean for the Online Book Mar...
Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship
Earlier this month a group of law schools released a statement promoting open access publishing of law school journals. Called the Durham Statement on Open ...
ARL Statement to Scholarly Publishers on the Global Economic Crisis
ARL issued a statement today on the impacts of the global economic crisis on library budgets and the corresponding effect on subscriptions and purchasing pat...
H.R.801 Threatens Open Access Requirement for Gov’t Funded Research
The Alliance for Taxpayer Access called out the introduction of proposed legislation that would prohibit the federal government from requiring publication of...
OCLC Review Board’s Blog
There is a new page in the Record Use Policy area on the OCLC website with an invitation from Jennifer Younger, chair of the Review Board, inviting members o...
Members of the OCLC Review Board Announced
OCLC announced late yesterday the members of the review board. In addition, they announced the establishment of an e-mail address for communicating with the...
On the Role of WorldCat and -Please- Open Up the Discussion
Nearly a week after it was posted, I came across a posting by Karen Calhoun of OCLC summarizing her impressions of the ALCTS Forum at Midwinter. I thought I...
ICOLC Issues Statement on the Global Economic Crisis and Its Impact on Consortial Licenses
On Monday, January 19th, the International Coalition of Library Consortia (ICOLC) issued a statement on the impact of the global economic crisis on libraries...
Correction Added to Guardian Story on OCLC Record Use Policy
Last week, The Guardian newspaper in the U.K. published a story on the proposed OCLC record use policy and the controversy surrounding the proposal. As the f...
Further Consideration of OCLC Records Use Policy
At ALA Midwinter, ALCTS sponsored a panel discussion about sharing library-created data inside and outside the library community, with a particular focus on ...
Consideration of OCLC Records Use Policy
At ALA Midwinter, ALCTS sponsored a panel discussion about sharing library-created data inside and outside the library community, with a particular focus on ...
Google Book Search Settlement and Library Consortia
The Google Book Search Settlement Agreement includes two points where library consortia come into play: discounts for institutional subscriptions and receip...
Preliminary Court Approval of Google Book Settlement; Final Approval Hearing Set
The Associate Press reported on Monday evening that the court has given preliminary approval to the settlement negotiated between Google and book authors and...
Google Book Search Settlement: Public Access Service
One of the very relevant aspects of the Google Book Search Settlement Agreement to libraries is the provision that allows for free public access to the full ...
Is OCLC’s Change of WorldCat Record Use/Transfer Policy Related to the Google Book Search Agreement?
Update On the Code4Lib IRC channel Thursday afternoon, Roy Tennant, Senior Program Officer at OCLC Programs and Research, said that there is absolutely no co...
George Mason University Issues Statement on Reuters/Zotero Lawsuit
George Mason University issued a statement this morning regarding the lawsuit filed against it by the Thomson Scientific division of Reuters. It looks like ...
Updates on the EndNote/Zotero Lawsuit
This is a brief update on the EndNote/Zotero lawsuit. The story thus far: The Thomson Scientific division of Reuters, maintainer of the EndNote software, i...
Extracts from the Thomson Reuters Lawsuit Against Zotero
Via a posting by James Grimmelmann, I found a link to the text of the complaint filed by Thomson Reuters against George Mason University in Virginia's state ...
George Mason University Sued by Thomson Reuters over Zotero
Thomson Reuters is suing George Mason University to stop distribution of the newest version of Zotero, a Firefox browser plugin for managing citation data. ...
Passing on ResearcherID
This morning I got an invitation to join ResearcherID, a new author profile service from Thomson Scientific. The service sounds nice enough -- who doesn't w...
NIH Mandatory Open Access Provision Becomes Law
President George W. Bush signs into law H.R. 2764, the Consolidated Appropriations Act 2008, also known at the omnibus, making appropriations for the Departm...
Advocates of the Balance Between the Rights of Intellectual Property Owners and the Rights of Information Users
The American Library Association Committee on Professional Ethics is proposing changes to the Code of Ethics. ((Do those outside the profession know that lib...
Support Public Access to Research Funded by the National Institutes of Health
The blogosphere is abuzz with what would seem to be the final hurdle for open access to taxpayer funded research by the National Institutes of Health. Ove...
Digital Preservation Activities: NSF’s “DataNet” and the NSF/Mellon Blue Ribbon Task Force
The past few weeks have seen announcements of large digital preservation programs. I find it interesting that the National Science Foundation is involved in...
Two Lectures on Copyright and Fair Use Today
Spotted in the Chronicle of Higher Education Online this morning is mention of two lectures by Wendy Seltzer that will happen today on the topic of copyright...
Offering Premium Resources
I love my local public library system, the Columbus Metropolitan Library. I'm a big fan of its helpful staff, plentiful collections, and convenient delivery...
More on Commercial Versus Not-For-Profit Open Access Publishing
DLTJ featured a discussion last month on what I saw as the outcomes of "clashing values" between the interest of businesses and that of not-for-profit higher...
On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog. But we can tell if you are a major news organization or corporation.
Published in The New Yorker July 5, 1993.Image from The Cartoon Bank As the saying, now a part of Internet lore, goes: "On the Internet, nobody knows you're...
Survey on Library Automation Trends
Marshall Breeding, editor of Library Technology Guides homepage, is conducting a survey on the trends in library automation. He describes the survey in a we...
Aligning Clashing Values
This started out as a comment to a posting by Chris Coppola, president and co-founder of rSmart Group. The comment got longer and threaded with yesterday's ...
What Is BioMed Central?
My posting on Friday about the clashing values of academic institutions and businesses prompted a comment from Bill Hooker about linking to his blog posting ...
Educational Patents, Open Access Journals, and Clashing Values
This posting has two goals -- first, to introduce DLTJ readers to the notion of "Educational Patents" or "edupatents" and provide an update on events of this...
Planning a digital preservation assessment using TRAC:CC and DRAMBORA
OhioLINK is engaged in building a "trusted digital repository" on behalf of its membership. As we build it, we want to have an understanding of what "truste...
Demonstrating the Mouse’s Absurd Copyright Practices by Using the Mouse’s Work
Professor Eric Faden of Bucknell University demonstrates principles of fair use to give an overview of U.S. copyright principles in A Fair(y) Use Tale -- a 1...
NDIIP Update: Requests for Funding and Other Activities
Activity still continues on the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIP). There were two stories in Washington DC newspa...
“How can I Avoid Library Fines?” – Return Your Items!
A reader of DLTJ sent me a private comment this afternoon pointing me in the direction of a post on wisegeek with the title How can I Avoid Library Fines? T...
Survey on Library Professional Perceptions
Jenny Emanuel, Electronic Services Librarian at University of Central Missouri, posted an invitation to complete a survey on how library professionals think ...
NDIIP Funding Statement by the Librarian of Congress
Early last month I mentioned what was happening to NDIIP funds with the impending passage of what became Public Law 110-5 [PDF] and posted a copy of a letter...
Survey on Digital Preservation Systems is Seeking Respondents
There are just a few days left to respond to the "International Digital Preservation Systems Survey" being run by Karim Boughida and Sally Hubbard from the G...
“Draft Principles for Digitized Content” from the Digitization Policy Task Force of ALA’s Office for Information Technology Policy
A note on the LITA-L mailing list from M. Claire Stewart (a member of the American Library Association Office of Information Technology Policy Task Force on ...
Petition for Public Access to Publicly Funded Research in the U.S.
As others have noted, there is now an online petition in support of public access to publicly funded research in the United States. The text of the petition...
What are /you/ planning on doing when the Bird Flu hits?
This could easily go in the "Disruption in Libraries" category of DLTJ, but it is a disruption of a different sort. Are you making contingency plans to cont...
Fair Use Versus the NFL with YouTube Caught in the Middle
Here is something to keep an eye on. Via the Chronicle of Higher Education, Wendy Seltzer, a visiting assistant professor at Brooklyn Law School and Fellow ...
To: Ohio’s Senators; Re: Proposed cuts to the NDIIPP
Postal address omitted from online version Februrary 11, 2007 The Honorable George V. Voinovich 524 Hart Senate Office Building United States Senate Washin...
U.S. House Votes to Rescind NDIIPP Funding; Bill Now Under Consideration by Senate
In a federal fiscal year that began without nine of the 11 appropriations bills passed, there is legislation pending in the Senate that would ax funding for ...