Developing Mobile Access to Digital Collections
This article presents four case studies on providing mobile access to digital collections. The authors conducted interviews with representatives from Duke University Libraries, Montana State University Libraries, North Carolina State University Librari…
Read MoreFrom Stacks to the Web: the Transformation of Academic Library Collecting
This is a pre-print of a piece slated to be published next year (January 2013), but the topic is certainly quite relevant now and waiting
a year to heed Lewis’ advice will do no one any favors. Kudos to C&RL for not making us do so. Lewis asserts that…
Orphan Works: Definitional Issues
With the collapse of the Google Books Settlement, the issue of how best to foster access to and use of orphan works is back on the table for discussion. Earlier this month in its decision in Golan v. Holder, the Supreme Court acknowledged the “host of …
Read MoreEbooks on Fire: Controversies Surrounding Ebooks in Libraries
Hamaker looks at the current state of e-books and finds, from a library perspective, that it is sadly lacking. In a myriad of ways, from
their malleability and lack of confidentiality to their higher cost, restrictions on lending and sharing, and arti…
Digital Humanities, SPEC Kit 326
In this SPEC Kit, the authors surveyed ARL libraries about digital humanities scholarship centers or services. About half of the
libraries responded (51%). Only 8% had a digital humanities center, but 24% had a more general digital scholarship center …
The Library Alternative
Whether, when, and how libraries can lend e-books to their patrons has become a source of tension between libraries and
publishers. As many commentators in both the trade and popular press have noted, publishers are understandably reluctant to enable …
Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Academic and Research Libraries
Fair use is one of the most important provisions of copyright
law for libraries, and it is one of the most difficult to apply in
practice. To determine whether a use is fair, a library must consider
four factors, which is a complex and uncertain tas…
Clemson’s Road Map
A good article and accompanying sidebars on a planning process Clemson University Library undertook to dramatically revise how it
uses the space they manage. Why? “The bricks and mortar of academic libraries are seemingly permanent,” writes Wall, “yet…