At LAPL, Proposed $1 Fee for Holds Is Dead Norman Oder - 04/25/2008
The Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) proposed reinstating a $1 charge to reserve or place a hold on books, but citizen resistance has killed the plan. Credit a web site called saveLAPL.
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Bridgeport Public Library Faces Drastic Cuts Lynn Blumenstein & Norman Oder - 04/18/2008
The Bridgeport Public Library, CT, faces a budget cut of some $1.1 million, more than one-quarter of the current year’s operating budget, which would result in the loss of 25 of 68 full-time staff members and close the system’s three branch libraries. The city's mayor calls libraries "not essential services.”
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Publishers Sue Georgia State University Over E-Reserves Andrew Albanese - 04/16/2008
One of the most contentious issue between libraries and publishers to emerge in the digital age landed in an Atlanta federal court yesterday, as a group of publishers filed the first lawsuit over a university’s electronic course content. Georgia State University officials have yet to comment.
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Book News: Rowling Getting Star Treatment in Court Michael Rogers - 04/15/2008 Author J.K. Rowling won a Galaxy British Book award, and now she’s hoping to win in an American court. Rowling is set to testify today in Manhattan’s U.S. District Court in a copyright suit she and Warner Bros. studio filed against RDR Books to stop the publication of The Harry Potter Lexicon written by librarian Steve Vander Ark.
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Periodicals Price Survey 2008: Embracing Openness By Lee C. Van Orsdel & Kathleen Born - 04/15/2008
They have argued about it for years. It's been touted as the liberator of information that wants to be free, the arbiter of shared intellectual property rights, and an engine that can drive discovery, invention, cures, and economies. It has also been vilified as an assault on capitalism, a catalyst for the collapse of responsible publishing and the rise of junk science, and a naïve inventi...
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Interactive Library of Congress Experience Debuts Norman Oder - 04/14/2008
With interactive technology, digitized documents, and much AV material, the Library of Congress (LC) has launched the “Library of Congress Experience,” along with a companion web site.
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Author J.K. Rowling won a Galaxy British Book award, and now she’s hoping to win in an American court. Rowling is set to testify today in Manhattan’s U.S. District Court in a copyright suit she and Warner Bros. studio filed against RDR Books to stop the publication of The Harry Potter Lexicon written by librarian Steve Vander Ark.
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