HarperCollins holds fast on 26 lends policy.
“One year ago, when HarperCollins Publishers implemented its 26-loan cap for library ebook lending, the new policy brought down upon the publishing house all the thunder that the library world could conjure — from petitions to boycotts.
But over the past year, as the library market has been further roiled, as other companies, such as Penguin Group, essentially stepped back from the market altogether, HarperCollins has remained not only committed to its model but also to the market. And for this, it is receiving from some librarians, if not praise, at least a sober reappraisal — even from some of those who are holding firm to their boycott.”
From Michael Kelly’s article for The Digital Shift, “One Year Later, HarperCollins Sticking to 26-Loan Cap, and Some Librarians Rethink Opposition”
Endangered Archives Programme member reports on experience.
“I was in Mizoram as a part of a four-member pilot-project under the Endangered Archives Programme (EAP), a global rescue mission for the world’s most endangered historical documents. Administered by the UK’s British Library and funded by Arcadia, EAP researchers have in the past seven years fanned out across the globe, armed with little more than high-resolution digital cameras and strong stomachs.”
Via INFOdocket.
Nate Hill presents a publishing model for libraries.
“In a sentence: Public libraries will have tremendous value and support in their communities if they strategically position themselves as community publishers. ‘Publisher’ certainly is a loaded word right now, as the publishing industry is currently victim to a lot of the same negative determinist futurecasting as public libraries, so let me describe what I mean by publishing here. As ‘community publishers’, I’m suggesting that public libraries can and should support the creative activities of residents by 1) providing access to equipment and expertise, 2) facilitating connections and conversations between those creative residents, and finally 3) serving as a distribution mechanism and access portal for much of the the work they create. This might mean assisting in the scanning and publishing of photographs from a patrons’ basement, offering basic recording facilities for local teens interested in making music, or the production and distribution of a local author’s novel. Here are the two components of a system that would truly reposition the public library as a local publisher.”
From Nate Hill’s post on The PLA Blog, “A two part plan to make your library a local publisher”
First issue of Journal of eScience Librarianship available.
“The first issue’s “full-length papers” are:
- ‘DataONE: Facilitating eScience through Collaboration‘
- ‘An Assessment of Needed Competencies to Promote the Data Curation and Management Librarianship of Health Sciences and Science and Technology Librarians in New England‘
- ‘Tiers of Research Data Support Services‘”
From Paul Biba’s TeleRead article, “Journal of eScience Librarianship launched”