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Two years ago, Google Books was becoming the world’s largest digital library and, with an effective monopoly, seemed “almost certain to be the last one.” The tragedy for scholars was that Google Books’ metadata – which allow users to search the catalog – were “a mishmash wrapped in a muddle wrapped in a mess.”SOURCE: Inside […]
I spend a lot of time working with computers now, but much of my life is still defined by the long relationship I’ve maintained with books.It’s surprising how many academics who identify with the digital humanities also have ties to “the History of the Book,” a field that has long been nurtured by seminars in […]
New Delhi: The Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) has introduced a suite of e-library services by converting the existing services into e-services and exploring many other ways to support its distance education system such as increasing the scope of e-resources accessed, better methods of seeking information, saving time in the information search and delivery, […]
WASHINGTON — A bill under consideration in Congress could make it easier for federal prosecutors to bring criminal charges against academic libraries for unduly making copyrighted materials available to students, according to a letter sent to lawmakers on Tuesday by a group of influential library associations.SOURCE: Inside Higher EdRead the Full Article
The American Public University System wants to get more bang for its buck with e-textbooks, so the for-profit college system is enlisting its professors to write and edit digital course materials. SOURCE: Inside Higher EdRead the Full Article
Lavish electronic-book projects point toward the pinnacle of the medium.SOURCE: MIT Technology Review Read the Full Article
Librarians have been saying they want and need to buy more scholarly monographs in electronic format. That perceived demand is about to be tested, as several long-planned e-book platforms for university-press books go live over the next few months.SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher EducationRead the Full Article
Just ask Seth Grahame-Smith, author of Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. His mash-up of the 19th-century Jane Austen classic with the 20th-century pulp-horror trope became an unlikely bestseller in 2009.SOURCE: Inside Higher EducationRead the Full Article
Incoming students at the University of North Carolina’s School of Information and Library Science this year are getting a new kind of welcome-to-campus perk: Free data storage, for keeps.SOURCE: The Chronicle of Higher Education Read the Full Article
(Ars Technica) — With the planned settlement between Google and book publishers still on indefinite hold, a legal battle by proxy has started. Google partnered with many libraries at US universities in order to gain access to the works it wants to digitize. Now, several groups that represent book authors have filed suit against those […]
