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100 years of the first sale doctrine
On June 1, 1908, 100 years ago today, the US Supreme Court decided Bobbs-Merrill v. Straus, a case that established what would become known as the “first sale doctrine”. This doctrine, now codified as part of the US Copyright Act, … Continue reading
Posted in copyright, libraries
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ILS-Discovery interoperation: New recommendation draft, last call for comments
The new draft of the ILS-Discovery recommendations I mentioned in my last post is now out. You can download it, and read more about it, on our task force wiki. As I mentioned previously, we intend this draft to be … Continue reading
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ILS-Discovery interoperation: It’s happening; more details coming soon
As Peter Brantley, executive director of the Digital Library Federation, announced last week, we have an agreement with many of the developers and vendors of integrated library systems and discovery applications to support a basic set of functions to allow … Continue reading
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Making your content findable
The best library collections don’t do much good if people who may be interested in the content don’t find it. That’s why it’s so important to provide good discovery tools for your collection. But even if you do that, lots … Continue reading
And now, your turn to have a say in ILS interfaces…
I’ve had my head down for the past couple of weeks for various reasons, but I’m happy to surface again and announce that the ILS discovery interface group that I discussed in my last post has produced a new draft … Continue reading
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Blowing the lid off the ILS (and the providers’ chance to have a say)
It’s now hardly a secret that many large research libraries are increasingly chafing at their traditional integrated library systems (ILSs). Duke University recently announced that they were planning to design an all new, open source ILS, presumably to replace their … Continue reading
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Subjects are more than just facets (and an ALA talk plug)
The Library of Congress’ Working Group for the Future of Bibliographic Control announced its final report today. I haven’t yet read over the final version, but I read an earlier draft, and was particularly interested in what it had to … Continue reading
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Quick! While there’s still time!
Folks interested in copyright information sharing may be interested in the following draft proposal for encoding copyright evidence in MARC records, the standard format used for library catalog records. It was published on December 17, just a couple of days … Continue reading
Quick links of interest
Some resources I’ve recently hear about that look like they deserve some attention (which I haven’t given them yet, but find worth noting now) The first issue of the Code4lib journal is out, with lots of interesting-looking articles on next-generation … Continue reading
Library branding? I got your library branding right here
Hey, I’d love to be able to give directions like this to where I work: “Just look for the giant books“. Okay, one of these is only a temporary facade, and the other is for the parking garage rather than … Continue reading
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