Day archives: September 17th, 2011

USDA – Rural Income, Poverty, and Welfare

Economic Research Service, updated September 17, 2011: “ERS research in this area focuses on the economic, social, and demographic factors that affect the income and poverty status of rural residents and their participation in Federal assistance programs, including food assistance programs. The industrial sources of earned income vary widely across rural areas. Social Security and …

Subjects: Government Documents

UK Guardian – The death of books has been greatly exaggerated

Radical change is certainly producing some alarming symptoms: “According to Nielsen BookScan, the publishing industry standard for book sales data, book sales are pretty healthy, with one significant proviso which I’ll come to. Ten years ago in 2001, 162m books were sold in Britain. Ten years later – a decade in which the internet bloomed, …

Subjects: E-Commerce, Internet, Knowledge Management, Libraries, Marketing

HathiTrust Statement on Authors Guild, Inc. et al. v. HathiTrust et al.

Press release: “On September 12, 2011 the Authors’ Guild and a number of other entities filed suit against HathiTrust and a number of its university partners. The issues in the suit are the orphan works project as well as the digitization effort that we have been engaged in for almost two decades. Digitization is a …

Subjects: Copyright, Knowledge Management, Legal Research, Libraries