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E-books: Libraries

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Buildings & Services

Re-Inventing Public Libraries For The Digital Age build digital infrastructure, preserve traditional library values; acquisitions to grants; 5/3/2012
Belgian rightsholders group wants to charge libraries for reading books to kids 3/13/2012
Why Digital Texts Need A New Library Of Alexandria -- With Physical Books (Internet Archive); 3/5/2012
In a Flood Tide of Digital Data, an Ark Full of Books (Internet Archive); 3/4/2012
Libraries Make Room For High-Tech 'Hackerspaces' 12/10/2011
Louder libraries for a digital age to open across U.S. 11/23/2011
Are Maker Spaces the Future of Public Libraries? (Fab Lab, 3D Printer); 11/21/2011
His Libraries, 12,000 So Far, Change Lives (John Wood; undeveloped countries); 11/6/2011
Wisconsin Library Now Lending Out iPads 9/23/2011
Internet archivist seeks 1 of every book written 8/1/2011
The Internet Archive, Now Preserving Printed Books As Well 6/7/2011
The future of the library (more than a warehouse for dead books; librarian as producer, concierge, connector, teacher and impresario); 5/16/2011
California Library Plan: Get Rid of Books, Replace Librarians With Videophones (Newport Beach community center); 4/1/2011

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Academia & Journals

Even Harvard Can't Afford Subscriptions To Academic Journals; Pushes For Open Access 4/30/2012
Vatican and Oxford libraries scan ancient works, let scholars stay in their armchairs 4/16/2012
Isaac Newton’s Personal Notebooks Go Digital 12/12/2011; Cambridge Digital Library
Royal Society Publishing (free historical journal) 10/25/2011
Robots, Not Humans, Retrieve Your Books at $81 Million “Library of the Future” [video; 2:36]; 5/24/2011
PEI University to bypass expensive database ("Web of Science": high subscription cost; substitute Wiki); 8/10/2010
Einstein Archives Online Scientfic & Non-scientific writings; Travel Diaries; Correspondence
SOU Hannon Library Digital Collections

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Lending

3M Cloud Library Lends Not Only E-Books, But Also E-Reader Hardware online or via kiosks; 100,000 titles; for Nook and 3M reader apps; 4/27/2012
E-Book Borrowing, Preceded by E-Book Waiting lack of availability and lengthy waiting lists; how to download for various devices; 4/12/2012
Penguin Pointlessly Annoys Readers With USB-Only eBooks (no wireless xfer for borrowed books); 3/7/2012
Libraries protest Random House price hike 3/2/2012
A Guide to Publishers in the Library Ebook Market 2/24/2012
Publishers vs. Libraries: An E-Book Tug of War (inconvenience; delays; limited checkouts); 12/25/2011
Everyone loves e-books, but no one wants to lend them 11/23/2011
Is the eBook Ecosystem Affected by the Amazon Library Lending Process? (privacy, checkout limits, expansion of audience, self-publishing); 10/28/2011
The Future Of Libraries In The E-Book Age (HarperCollins); 4/4/2011
As Library E-Books Live Long, Publisher Sets Expiration Date (HarperCollins); 3/15/2011
A Limit on Lending E-Books 2/27/2011
This Library E-Book Will Self-Destruct After 26 Check Outs 2/25/2011
see also: Overdrive and Jackson County Library

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Online Libraries

Wikipedia
Redefining Research (infographic: Wikipedia compared to Encyc. Britannica)
Project Gutenberg: free eBooks
What is Project Gutenberg? [video; 4:36]
www.epubbooks.com; www.feedbooks.com; manybooks.net; snee.com/epubkidsbooks; wikibooks.org; Gutenberg Partners, Affiliates
Whither the dream of the universal library? Imagine a library of everything ever written. We could achieve it, but the copyright system is skewed toward corporate interests; 4/19/2011
The Library of Utopia the major problems with constructing a universal library has little to do with technology: legal, commercial, and political issues of publishing business; Google; Harvard's Digital Public Library of America; 5/2012
Load Up Your iPad with a Massive Library of Over 38,000 Free eBooks 4/5/2012
The Challenges of Building a Digital Public Library of America 10/21/2011
Curious Contents of the Digital Library (public domain); 10/13/2011
British Library and Google Books partner up to digitize 250,000 out-of-copyright works 6/20/2011
What Big Media Can Learn From the New York Public Library (Biblion; social networking; crowdsourcing; media); 6/2011
When Hard Books Disappear 6/2011
Why Preserve Books? The New Physical Archive of the Internet Archive 6/6/2011
Biblion brings New York Public Library archives to your iPad 5/18/2011
Ruling Spurs Effort to Form Digital Public Library 4/4/2011
A Digital (Public) Library Better Than Google’s 3/24/2011
Book Ruling Cuts Options for Google 3/24/2011
Internet Archive and Library Partners Develop Joint Collection of 80,000+ eBooks To Extend Traditional In-Library Lending Model 2/22/2011
Playing Catch-Up in a Digital Library Race (national digital library); 1/9/2011
How To Build A Library of DRM-free and legally-free ePub eBooks 1/31/2010
Google Books Library Project – An enhanced card catalog of the world's books

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