Controlled Digital Lending…What’s the Fuss?
On March 16, 2023, I gave a presentation with this title to the code4lib conference in Princeton, New Jersey. The suggested links from the end of the presen...
Internet Archive
Thursday Threads: Open Source in Health Care, The Big Deal, Archives of Web Pages
We’re taking a break this week from the HarperCollins e-book story; although the commentary continues from librarians (and a few authors), there hasn’t been ...
Thursday Threads: HarperCollins Ebook Terms, Internet Archive Ebook Sharing, Future of Collections
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Mashups of Bibliographic Data: A Report of the ALCTS Midwinter Forum
This year the ALCTS Forum at ALA Midwinter brought together three perspectives on massaging bibliographic data of various sorts in ways that use MARC, but wh...
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 ...
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...
Open Library Demonstration Screencast
Earlier this week, Aaron Swartz of the Internet Archive announced the demonstration website of the Open Library project, a new kind of book catalog that brin...