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Interesting look at how there are new niches in old technologies formed as the demand for archiving increases but the technologies that formed the originals fall out of popular use.

A light article on the last decade of Google and its influence, but also some interesting tidbits about attempts to archive the Web. What's worth archiving? How to go about it?

As research libraries and archives are discovering, "born-digital" materials are much more complicated and costly to preserve than anticipated.

The musings of ordinary people will be recorded in the national archives.

The Internet Archive asks the ruling judge to intervene in the settlement between Google and the AAP, claiming that Google will gain a monopoly on the use of orphan works.

Interesting project for Internet archiving...wonder about some of the (eventual) privacy issues that might be involved, though. As the article quotes the archivist: "'Whoever is going to be president in 2048, she's in high school now, and she may have a Web site, and we probably have it.'" How many political opponents would love to seize on this hypothetical person if her teenage rants (e.g., "OMG my mom is so horrible, she won't let me go to Kasey's party on Saturday! Isn't there some kind of law against child abuse?") came to light when she's 53 and in a position of power? Is/Will it be considered fair game to judge a middle-aged woman by what the adolescent says now?

Just because I love me so Gambit, Storm, Wolverine, Jubilee, and Rogue :)

Tucked away in libraries across the country are unexpected archives and world-class treasures, including nurse romance novels, forgers and other frauds, and painted books.

Google will include magazine content in its Book Search--but what will magazine publishers get out of it?

Tim O'Reilly interview about Kindle and the future of book publishing.

Intersection of privacy law and copyright law (esp. fair use and library/archival uses) -- is it ethical to reproduce signed cease-and-desist letters?

The combination of text, video, and archival media is the perfect medium for the new Jacqueline Kennedy volume

This week, California took a big step forward in open-source education. Governor Jerry Brown signed into law a proposal to create a website that will allow students to download popular textbooks for free. The legislation contains two bills: One, a proposal for the state to fund 50 open-source digital textbooks, targeted to lower-division courses, which will be produced by California's universities. The other bill is a proposal to establish a California Digital Open Source Library to host those books.

Great read about why to be hopeful about the future of indendent bookstores.