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Worlds Largest Collection of Digital Content Planned for New eReader : Printing Impress... - 0 views

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shared by Thelisha Woods on 17 Feb 09 - Cached

Thelisha Woods on 17 Feb 09

EReaders are becoming increasingly popular, but one of the major drawbacks is the current limitation on the amount of digital content available. Plastic Logic plans to amass one of the largest collections of content available for an eReader.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">EReaders are becoming increasingly popular, but one of the major drawbacks is the current limitation on the amount of digital content available. Plastic Logic plans to amass one of the largest collections of content available for an eReader.</div>

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The Fight Over the Future of Digital Books - 0 views

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shared by Allison Hughes on 24 Sep 11 - No Cached

Allison Hughes on 24 Sep 11

The Authors Guild filed suit against five universities and the digital tower, called HathiTrust, that those universities created to preserve and make available to students and faculty scans of books from their collections.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The Authors Guild filed suit against five universities and the digital tower, called HathiTrust, that those universities created to preserve and make available to students and faculty scans of books from their collections.</div>

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The Future of Libraries - Telegraph - 0 views

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Danielle DeVenio on 14 Sep 11

Since this was a topic of discussion in last class and we didn't touch on this point....the future of libraries involves sharing their special collections digitally

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Since this was a topic of discussion in last class and we didn't touch on this point....the future of libraries involves sharing their special collections digitally</div>

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School chooses Kindle; are libraries for the history 'books'? - USATODAY.com - 0 views

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Allison Begezda on 05 Nov 09

A private school in Ashburnham, Mass. began to get rid of most of the school's library books and replaced them with a digital collection.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">A private school in Ashburnham, Mass. began to get rid of most of the school's library books and replaced them with a digital collection. </div>

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Publishing Perils in the Digital Age - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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Rachel Manwill on 19 Oct 11

Examines publishing vs. self-publishing in the aftermath of Penguin's decision to cancel an author's contract when she self-published a collection of stories.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Examines publishing vs. self-publishing in the aftermath of Penguin's decision to cancel an author's contract when she self-published a collection of stories.</div>

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Library Inc. - - 2 views

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Yet libraries, the intellectual heart of universities, have become perhaps the most commercialized academic area within universities, with troubling implications for the future of higher education.
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Through innocuous incremental stages, academic libraries have reached a point where they are now guided largely by the mores of commerce, not academe.
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Over the last decade, however, as the number and cost of journals have soared, most libraries have decided to forgo purchasing hard copies. The shift from owning a journal to merely providing access to its digital incarnation has, of course, saved some money. But those savings come in tandem with detrimental changes both to the content of library collections and the ways those collections are used.
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According to both the professional literature and information-vending companies' usability studies, a library's chief task is to meet the information needs of its patrons
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For university libraries, retrieving what is known should be only the beginning. They are laboratories of the mind, unique places where questions that have never before been asked can be formulated and answered; they are centers of teaching where patrons can learn about the organization and the production of knowledge
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or universities, the libraries' experience is a cautionary tale. Commercial practices, technologies, and innovations often seem to benefit and support the academic mission of universities. But commercial innovations are not value-free, and it has proven very difficult for libraries to embrace some components while rejecting others.
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arnie Grossblatt on 04 Nov 10

Interesting, if a bit unbalanced, about the corruption of university libraries by commercial publishers and the pressure of "good enough" information in a Googlized world

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Interesting, if a bit unbalanced, about the corruption of university libraries by commercial publishers and the pressure of "good enough" information in a Googlized world</div>

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