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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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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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Online Databases: Web Widgets Help Searchers By Carol Tenopir - 04/01/2008
Widgets are interactive, single-purpose applications for displaying and/or updating information. They can bring newsfeeds, weather forecasts, and more to a desktop or mobile web platform. Variants known as “web widgets” (or sometimes modules or badges), with fragments of code, have become popular, for example, in delivering data to social networking sites.
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Online Databases: A Global Information World By Carol Tenopir - 03/01/2008
If you ever doubted that we are a global information community that shares similar needs and concerns, a trip to the Online Information Meeting in London will convince you. The December 2007 session, the 32nd annual meeting, drew a standing room–only crowd from 101 countries; nearly every session included issues and viewpoints that crossed country boundaries.
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Is It OK for a Library To Lend a Kindle? Norman Oder - 02/07/2008
While Amazon.com's Terms of Service say you can't loan the ebook reading device to third parties, it's not clear that the company will crack down on a library.
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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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