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Copyright
Publishers' Move Could Mean 'Whole New Trial' in GSU Copyright Case
With the case now back at the district court, the three publisher plaintiffs are seeking to introduce new evidence to determine whether the university’s e-reserve policies are infringing.
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Libraries
Check it Out: The Race for ALA Presidency
J.P. Porcaro may not fit the mold of past ALA presidents, but his campaign is rallying a generation of young librarians to participate in ALA.
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Libraries
Books and Browsers: Collaboration Creates New Possibilities for Digital
How a project to address museum catalogues yielded big insights into digital publishing.
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Libraries
EBSCO Buys YBP Library Services from B&T
EBSCO officials called the acquisition of YBP Library Services, a leader in serving academic libraries, a "significant investment."
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Libraries
Youth Movement: Children’s and Teens’ Librarianship
Adult library services get most the profession’s attention, but there's a lot to talk about in children's librarianship.
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Conferences
ALA Midwinter 2015: Amid Winter Storms, ALA Attendance Dips
In all, 10,637attended, the lowest attendance since 2012, when 9,929 gathered in Dallas.
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Libraries
PW Talks to Ferguson Library Director Scott Bonner
'PW' catches up with director Scott Bonner for a wide-ranging talk about life in Ferguson, MO, and the library’s much lauded efforts following the shooting of Michael Brown.
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Content / e-books
ALA Midwinter 2015: BISG and ALA Announce Library Survey
The jointly developed survey will seek to understand library patrons’ use of digital resources and other services offered by public libraries.
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Libraries
Check it Out: Book Banning in America
A new book explores how and why books are challenged in America.
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Conferences
ALA Midwinter Meeting Kicks Off in Chicago
The main conference program kicks off this afternoon with the popular Exhibits Roundtable/Booklist Author Forum, followed by an opening reception in the exhibit hall.
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Content / e-books
Harper CEO Not Testifying in Latest E-book Price-Fixing Case
In a brief brief order this week, Judge Denise Cote ruled that plaintiffs in a second e-book price-fixing case cannot depose HarperCollins CEO Brian Murray.
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Publisher News
Publishers Urge Reversal on Syrian Publishing Ban
In a letter, attorneys for the publishers claim that new sanctions violate federal law and the First Amendment.
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Conferences
DBW Panel : Can Publishers Take Advantage of Reader Data?
Publishers are awash in data about readers' habits. Now: what to do with it all?
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Conferences
Solid Attendance at 2016 ALA Midwinter Meeting
More than 10,000 librarians gathered in Boston over the weekend for the show and, for the first time in three years, escaped without a blast of winter weather.
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Common Core
Cut to the Core: Educators Find Ways to Disrupt the Materials Market
As fallout from the Common Core rollout continues, a noticeable trend has emerged.
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Copyright
Authors Guild Drops HathiTrust Case
After suffering two major defeats in its legal battle with Google’s library scanning partners, the Authors Guild this week finally ended the litigation.
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Libraries
Now Trending on Twitter: Public Libraries
Using the hashtag #becauseofapubliclibrary, Ferguson (Mo.) Municipal Public Library library director Scott Bonner sparked an outpouring of library love from the Twitterverse on Tuesday.
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Copyright
Court Rejects Publishers’ Latest Appeal in GSU Copyright Case
The decision means that the case is headed back to the district court, although the publishers could to the Supreme Court.
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Libraries
Books and Browsers: Privacy for Digital Library Patrons
Libraries must not only protect our users' privacy, but also educate them about how responsible data collection can benefit them.
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Industry News
Mobile Devices, New Partnerships Boost Worldreader
In Ghana, 65% of second-graders couldn't read a single word in their mother tongue (let alone English) prior to the arrival of e-readers, notes Danielle Zacarius, Worldreader’s director of publishing partnerships. But according to a November report, among the children in Worldreader’s iREAD 2 program, that figure dropped that to less than 11%—in just 18 months.