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...
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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...
Two ways to learn about the OLE Project at ALA
Add this event to your desktop calendar program. There will be two programs at the ALA Annual Conference in Chicago where aspects of the Open Library Environ...
Textbook Affordability at the Student Success Assessment Summit
I had the pleasure of presenting on a panel at the Ohio Student Success Assessment Summit this morning on the topic of textbooks and open educational resourc...
| Three New Search Services: Wolfram | Alpha, Microsoft Bing, Google Squared |
It has been a wild few weeks in search engines -- or search-engine-like services. We've seen the introduction of no fewer than three high-profile tools ......
Drive-Thru Textbook Buy-Back
I continue to be astonished by how efficient the used textbook market has become. This week, at the end of the spring quarter at Ohio State University, a dr...
Flat World Knowledge and U.S. Gov’t on Open Access Course Materials
The sand is really starting to shift under the traditional textbook providers as the open course content movement shows signs of, well, movement. Already th...
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...
Online Editions of Out-of-Print Books Result from Library/Press Partnership at Univ of Pittsburgh
Late last month, the University of Pittsburgh Press and Library System announced a joint effort to revive 500 titles with online and print-on demand access. ...
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...
Use of JPEG2000 for Broadcast Video Transmission
Although my day-to-day work takes me farther away from working with digital collections in general and JPEG2000 specifically, I still have a Google News sear...