2022-06-27 17:46
SPARC (Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) has posted on its website information on how a library might push back on vendor confidentiality clauses. As SPARC notes, those… Read More
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...pivoting to focus on innovation. Still blogging about copyright and occasionally on digitization.
2022-06-22 14:52
Has your library moved away from using the CONTU guidelines for interlibrary loan (ILL)? Jimmy Carter was the U.S. President when CONTU was adopted in 1979. That may be before many who… Read More
2022-06-10 13:42
Like many others, I have signed up to receive news releases from the Copyright Office. Some are more interesting than others, and this one really caught my eye. I have bolded the text which… Read More
2022-06-08 18:32
I've written about controlled digital lending (CDL) before. I'm a proponent of it because I understand how it works legally and its benefits. For me this is one more way libraries are engage… Read More
2022-06-01 14:50
I had a wonderful conversation yesterday with someone else who does copyright training. Our conversation wandered and one of the things we touched on was basically, "what is a copier?" Yo… Read More
2022-05-19 13:00
The Vera Institute for Justice in New York City has five tip sheets for "Designing Accessible Events for People with Disabilities and Deaf Individuals." This information is important for lib… Read More
2022-05-17 19:12
In this month's American Libraries Magazine "Letters of the Law," Mary Minor and guest author Kyle K. Courtney "discuss the library ebooks landscape and state-level efforts to institu… Read More
2022-05-17 17:27
OCLC announced in January that Lorcan Dempsey was retiring at the end of April. For me, it has seemed like Lorcan had worked at OCLC forever, but that was not true. However, I've seen his im… Read More
2022-05-05 12:30
IFLA has released an executive summary of a report that it plans to release in advance of May WIPO SCCR/42, the 42nd meeting of the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Standing… Read More
2022-05-03 14:57
A couple of months ago someone emailed me a link to "Copyright, Exhaustion, and the Role of Libraries in the Ecosystem of Knowledge" written by Ariel Katz, who is faculty at the University o… Read More
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