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May 15th, 2012

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...

May 3rd, 2012

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...

April 30th, 2012

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 8th, 2012
Although the Google Book Settlement has been rejected by the court, one reason the parties were even able to reach an agreement was by avoiding the question of whether Google’s scanning of copyrighted books was a violation of fair use. The issue came up late last year when the...
March 8th, 2012

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...

February 22nd, 2012
GSU president to hold discussion on the future of academic libraries

Contact:
Leah Seupersad, 404-413-1354
University Relations  

ATLANTA—...

February 13th, 2012

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 ...

February 1st, 2012

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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...

January 16th, 2012

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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...