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Navigate through the underground maze of library stacks and study tables in the basement of the Duderstadt Center on the University of Michigan’s North Campus and you’ll find a virtual treasure chest...
I’ve researched and written too many papers during my time here, yet have only been to the library once to actually get my hands on some physical reference material. Once. This isn’t because the library system isn’t useful; in fact, it's the opposite. The University of...
According to an amicus brief prepared by Jonathan Band, on behalf of three major library organizations, the motion for partial summary judgment filed in February by the Authors Guild in its lawsuit against the...
March 6, 2012—The Harvard Library will deposit approximately 200,000 public domain volumes in HathiTrust, a shared digital repository for published materials. This follows Harvard's...
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CHICAGO - Two new training resources addressing civility and bias in the workplace are now available from the ALA Office for Diversity.
Developed by the ALA Office for Diversity and the ...
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There is little incentive for rights holders to negotiate with us in a future in which ownership, fair use, and first-sale doctrines have been replaced with rentals and licensing. In that future, rights holders get to make all the rules, which will benefit them instead of the...
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What became HathiTrust started in late 2006 as a proposal from the University of Michigan to its sister libraries in the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC), to operate a shared digital repository to archive the large files that would be generated as the CIC libraries...



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