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From The Well (UNC at Chapel Hill): The new Ken Burns documentary “Country Music” could not have fully described the origins of the musical genre and recording industry without the help of Carolina’s Southern Folklife Collection at the University Libraries. “The Southern Folklife Collection’s holdings are among the foremost archives for researching country music and a significant resource for the […]

WIPO’s two-day “International Conference on Copyright Limitations and Exceptions for Libraries, Archives, Museums and Educational & Research Institutions” concluded yesterday in Geneva, Switzerland. From the Conference Website: This International Conference is being held in accordance with the Action Plans on Limitations and Exceptions approved by member states during the 36th session of the Standing Committee on Copyright and Related […]

In the past few days the Internet Archive (IA) has been busy announcing improved and enhanced services. Wonderful news! We have already noted the launch of a new streaming music player, more MS-DOS games you can play online and will soon have much more to say about the launch of several new features (go and […]

From the Association of American Publishers (AAP): The Association of American Publishers today released a StatShot report for August of 2019 reflecting reported revenue for all tracked categories, including Trade (consumer publications), K-12 Instructional Materials, Higher Education Course Materials, Professional Publishing and University Presses. Overall participating publisher revenue for the month was $2.0 billion, a […]

From the U. of Georgia: Through a new partnership with Google, about 120,000 of the Libraries’ 4.5 million volumes will be digitized, allowing further access to literary, historic, scientific and reference books and journals through UGA’s library catalog as well as one of the largest digital book collections in the world. “The University of Georgia […]

From MIT News/MIT Libraries: The Ad Hoc Task Force on Open Access to MIT’s Research has released its final recommendations, which aim to support and increase the open sharing of MIT publications, data, software, and educational materials. The Institute-wide open access (OA) task force, convened by Provost Martin Schmidt in July 2017, was charged with exploring how […]

From an infojustice.org Blog Post by Jonathan Band: Organizations representing libraries and archives filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Supreme Court in Allen v. Cooper, a case concerning the constitutionality of a statute that seeks to limit the sovereign immunity of state governments against claims for copyright infringement. The amicus brief focuses on the negative […]

From an Editorial by the Editorial Board of the The Harvard Crimson: We appreciate the Harvard Library system, and the many functions it serves at the University and in the wider academic world, first and foremost providing access to centuries of accumulated knowledge. That said, we understand that libraries may feel the need to implement […]

From an Internet Archive Blog Post: Our online digital library is best known for its immense archive of web pages and websites in the Wayback Machines. Less well known are the million-plus recordings the site has stored digitally and made available to the general public, mostly from 78s, albums and CDs. Highlighting the growing importance […]