Here is this week’s roundup of library news:
US Library News:
North Carolina: State program helps public libraries share books (The News & Observer)
Tennessee: For Internet To Go, Check The Library (NPR)
International Library News:
UK: British Librarians Are Suing Government Over Library Closings (AdWeek)
New Zealand: ‘Born-digital’ records a minefield for archivists (ZD Net)
Policy and Privacy:
New report looks to future of libraries building digitally inclusive communities (ALA News)
Shaping the Library to the Life of the User: Adapting, Empowering, Partnering, Engaging (OCLC)
191 million voters’ personal info exposed by misconfigured database (Databreaches)
Copyright:
Authors challenge Google’s book copying project (SCOTUS Blog)
Anne Frank’s diary can be copied for scientific research: court (Dutch News.NL)
US Copyright Office Wants Your Input on the DMCA Rule-Making Process (The Digital Reader)
Reference and Statistics:
Digital Collections:
Archives: Fascinating finds in National Library of Israel Jewish newspaper archive (Jewish Heritage Europe)
Bronx Black History Archives Open to Public (Fordham News)
New Manuscripts From the National Library of Greece (Center for the Study of New Testament Manuscripts)
Researchers building digital archive on WWI poetry by American immigrants (KU)
FILLING IN DIGITAL BLANKS OF HISTORIC TEXTS: Engineering students fix common glitch in digitization of books published before 1700 (Northwestern)
Osher Map Library at University of Southern Maine digitizes its rare globe collection (Portland Press Herald)
Literary Journal: Complete, Searchable Digital Archive of the “Jewish Book Annual” Now Available Online (Infodocket)
About once a week, I post links to digital-related library news articles and information about digital collections available online. I also post other links of interest about the digital life daily on the Google Plus eBook Evangelist Page.
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