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Via GOOD Education – Generation Read: Millennials Buy More Books Than Everybody Else: “Forget the stereotype of the tweeting, texting, YouTube-watching millennial with a short attention span. According to the 2012 U.S. Book Consumer Demographics and Buying Behaviors Annual Review, if you were born between 1979 and 1989, you spent more money on books in …
Ebook Acquisition and Lending Briefing – Public, Academic and Research Libraries, August 2012: “This paper presents some of the legal, strategic and technical problems that arise from the addition of scholarly and trade ebooks to library collections, together with possible solutions. Some of the most common business models are briefly set out. The latest data …
News release: “OCLC has published bibliographic linked data for the most widely held works in WorldCat. This downloadable filerepresenting nearly 1.2 million resourcescontains approximately 80 million linked data triples, the term for the most granular relationship possible between discrete pieces of information…The linked data is provided as RDF serialization, and uses the Schema.org ontology as …
“Lee Rainie, Director of the Pew Research Centers Internet & American Life Project, will present the latest Project findings to the Handheld Librarian Online Conference about how many people have mobile devices and how they use these devicesfor accessing all kinds of content, using apps, social media, and for specialized searches such as for politics, …
via LLRX.com – OverDrive, safeguarding classics, the Jane Austen-‘Hunger Games’ connection, and a few other priorities for the DPLA to ponder: David H. Rothman’s current commentary on the Harvard-hosted Digital Public Library of America highlights successful components of the project and prospective concepts that would support attaining the goal of a national digital library system.
The Problem of Data, Lori Jahnke and Andrew Asher, Spencer D. C. Keralis with an introduction by Charles Henry. August 2012. CLIR Pubublication No. 154. Every day, we create 2.5 quintillion bytes of dataso much that 90% of the data in the world today has been created in the last two years alone. IBM, Bringing …
News release: “OCLC is recommending the Open Data Commons Attribution License (ODC-BY) for member institutions that would like to release their library catalog data on the Web. This open data license provides the means for users to share WorldCat-derived data in a manner that is consistent with the cooperatives community norms defined in the WorldCat …
Via LLRX.com: Did the British burn all the books? Remembering the war of 1812 and the first Library of Congress Nicholas Pengelley has once again contributed his expertise as a historian, librarian, writer, and scholar with his article on the War of 1812, from the Canadian perspective. This month marks the anniversary of events that …
E-Books in Libraries: A Briefing Document Developed in Preparation for a Workshop on E-Lending in Libraries (July 1, 2012). Berkman Center Research Publication No. 2012-15. “The E-Books in Libraries workshop was convened as part of a broader effort to explore current issues associated with digital publishing business models and access to digitally-published materials in libraries. …
Publishers Week news in following Google Book Scanning project postings: “After a round of key filings, two Authors Guild cases challenging Googles ambitious library book-scanning program are on schedule for early fall trial dates. Final reply briefs were filed July 27 for the Authors Guild v. HathiTrust, with that case now fully briefed and all …
How Fair Use Can Help Solve the Orphan Works Problem, Jennifer M. Urban – University of California, Berkeley – School of Law, June 18, 2012. Berkeley Technology Law Journal, Vol. 27, 2012. UC Berkeley Public Law Research Paper No. 2089526 “Many works that libraries, archives, and historical societies, among others, would like to digitize and …
“Videos of all Libraries Rebound presentations and discussions are now available on YouTube and on the OCLC Research website. There are 17 videos total. The OCLC Research Library Partnership meeting, Libraries Rebound: Embracing Mission, Maximizing Impact, took place 5-6 June 2012 in Philadelphia, PA. It focused on the implementation of distinctive services that better align …
