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The GPO announced that its plan, the Future Digital System (FDsys), to digitize most government documents beginning with the Federal Papers, should be completed by summer 2007. See also the December 1, 2004 GPO report, A Strategic Vision for the 21st Century (23 pages, PDF)
From the University of Michigan Law Library, Information on Harriet Miers, Nominee for Justice of the Supreme Court. This page was created with the collaborative effort of Kincaid C. Brown, Barbara H. Garavaglia, Aimee S. Mangan and Jennifer Selby. SMU Underwood Law Library: Published Writings of Harriet E. Miers, Nominee for Justice of the U. …
Descriptive metadata for copyright Status, by Karen Coyl: “The need to express the intellectual property rights of digital materials has focused on access and usage permissions which must be granted by the rights holder. A key set of permissions not acknowledged by these rights expressions is inherent in the legal copyright status of the item. …
An interview with Kurt Vonnegut in the October 6 USA Today, includes the following quote: “Music…cheers him, as do people who behave decently. Librarians too – “not famous for their physical strength” – who resist having books removed from shelves and refuse to give names to people who have checked out certain books in the …
Follow-up to my September 29, 2005 posting, Broad Coalition Pushes to Lift Gag Order Against Librarian, AP reports that yesterday the ACLU filed an appeal with the Supreme Court, the text of which is censored, to release an anonymous Connecticut librarian from a gag order concerning an FBI investigation into his/her organization’s patron records. ALA …
Federal Register, October 3, 2005: Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies. Copyright Office, Library of Congress. Notice of inquiry. “The Copyright Office of the Library of Congress is preparing to conduct proceedings in accordance with section 1201(a)(1) of the Copyright Act, which was added by the Digital Millennium …
“The Open Content Alliance (OCA) represents the collaborative efforts of a group of cultural, technology, nonprofit, and governmental organizations from around the world that will help build a permanent archive of multilingual digitized text and multimedia content. Content in the OCA archive will be accessible soon through this website and through Yahoo!. The OCA will …
ACLU press release: “The American Civil Liberties Union, the American Library Association, the Free Congress Foundation and members of Congress gathered today to urge the Justice Department to lift a gag order silencing Americans who have received demands for personal records under the Patriot Act. “John Doe,” an organization that is an ALA member and …
“The List of Classes is the official listing of publications available for selection by depository libraries participating in the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP). The list is arranged by the Superintendent of Documents classification numbering system and is designed to group together publications by the same government author.” [GPO Access]
“GPO is releasing three briefing papers and soliciting comments from the depository library community. Depository Selection: History and Current Practice is provided as background information for the other two papers. It provides an overview of the item number process in its current form. Depository Selection Mechanisms: New Model for the Selection of Online Titles proposes …
A complaint was filed against Google in US District Court, Southern District of New York, for copyright infringement, involving the Google Print program. Related links: Press release: Authors Guild Sues Google, Citing “Massive Copyright Infringement” Google’s blog posting about the lawsuit. BusinessWeek.com’s commentary Topical postings from beSpacific The Google Print Library Project: A Copyright Analysis, …
Press release: “Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein announced today several initiatives to aid in the recovery of original records in the states of Mississippi, Alabama, and Louisiana that have been affected by Hurricane Katrina…[he stated] the potential loss of information that directly affects the lives of people in these states is staggering. The …
