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Increasingly, the record of our civilization is becoming digital, from census data to family photos. The Library of Congress alone has 35 terabytes of files. Yet rapid changes in computers and software could render this data unreadable.
STANFORD, Calif. — The California State University system recently negotiated a deal with a provider of electronic library books to allow multiple readers to use select e-books simultaneously during a one-year pilot program. Stanford librarians are currently exploring the possibility of an increased reliance on e-books as well.
The so-called “serial pricing crisis” has been with us for a long time. Documented by librarians, denied by commercial publishers, its reality has finally been established as common knowledge and the behavior of commercial publishers and a few learned societies has been singled out as its major cause.
Alison Thompson says she spends about two hours a night on the computer, sending instant messages to friends and doing school research.
In one image, a beaming Irving Berlin sits at his piano. Above, an arc of words proclaims: “He’s a Rag Picker.” In another, a couple dressed in Roaring Twenties garb dance the “Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble.” These are but two images in an online archive displaying works from the Templeton Sheet Music Collection. Exploring the unusual archive is […]
20 Years In The Making, The Book Of Counted Sorrows Is Released As Barnes & Noble Digital’s First eBook
James H. Billington, The Librarian of Congress Humanizing the Information Revolution International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions Conference Hynes Convention Center Ballroom C, Boston, Mass. 11:15 a.m. – 12:15 p.m., Tuesday, August 21
Four major publishers have agreed to open an online clearinghouse on the Internet portal Yahoo (news/quote) to sell their electronic books directly to readers, advancing their efforts to liberate themselves from reliance on online retailers in the nascent business of selling books in digital form.
Last August, top executives from Microsoft (news/quote), Barnesandnoble.com and several book publishers assembled at a Midtown Manhattan hotel for a news conference to usher in the coming age of the electronic book.
university system has written a new chapter in how to lend e-books.
