The Harvard Library announced it is making more
than 12 million catalog records from Harvard’s 73 libraries publicly available.
Harvard
Library announced its open distribution of metadata from its Digital Access to Scholarship at
Harvard (DASH) scholarly article repository under a
similar CC0 license.
I'm very heartened by this development, and by the implication that libraries are taking control of their own metadata in order to make the items within their collections more findable, and more easy to integrate with other mediums.