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Controlled Digital Lending Takes a Blow in Court

A Federal judge’s ruling offered a stern rebuke of the Internet Archive’s National Emergency Library and its controlled digital lending service, providing a significant victory for the four publishers that had filed suit.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Mar 29, 2023
  • 11 Comments

Trust and the Personal Library

Who holds the particular book needed by a reader? What is the balance between the personal library and the institutional collection?

  • By Jill O'Neill
  • Jan 9, 2023
  • 6 Comments

Let the Metadata Wars Begin

Two giants in the library technology market move the battle over who controls library catalog records to court.

  • By Todd A Carpenter
  • Jun 22, 2022
  • 13 Comments

Libraries and the Contested Terrain of “Neutrality”

Are libraries “neutral”? That question is way too simplistic to serve as anything other than a political football.

  • By Rick Anderson
  • Mar 3, 2022
  • 17 Comments

More on Checking out Library Books

More about books about libraries and librarians, with a compilation of suggested readings.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Jan 4, 2022
  • 14 Comments

The Impacts of COVID-19 on Academic Library Budgets: Fall 2020

The pandemic has wrought profound disruption on the academic sector. Today, we share findings from a major research project about the budget situation in US academic libraries.

  • By Jennifer Frederick, Roger C. Schonfeld, Christine Wolff-Eisenberg
  • Dec 9, 2020
  • 0 Comments

Guest Post — Research Support is an Enterprise Activity

Rebecca Bryant (OCLC) explains why cross-campus social interoperability is needed to adequately support today’s researchers.

  • By Rebecca Bryant
  • Oct 7, 2020
  • 1 Comment

What Do Libraries Keep When They Cancel the Big Deal? 

How do libraries decide which titles to keep when they cancel the Big Deal? What do the results look like? A look at seven libraries that walked away by @lisalibrarian.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jul 14, 2020
  • 11 Comments

Taking a Big Bite Out of the Big Deal

Unsub is the game-changing data analysis service that is helping librarians forecast, explore, and optimize their alternatives to the Big Deal. Librarians breaking away from the Big Deal often credit Unsub as a critical component of their strategy.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • May 19, 2020
  • 50 Comments

The Internet Archive Chooses Readers

How will we meet this moment of global crisis? The Internet Archive breaks glass.

  • By Karin Wulf
  • Apr 2, 2020
  • 27 Comments

Academic Library Response to COVID-19: Real-Time Data Gathering and Dissemination 

The story behind the survey for and from the academic library community as it responds to COVID-19 by @lisalibrarian + @cwolffeisenberg.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe, Christine Wolff-Eisenberg
  • Mar 23, 2020
  • 1 Comment

Privacy in User Research: Can You?

Can you prioritize privacy in user research? Simply put – yes.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Sep 5, 2018
  • 7 Comments

Good Data, Bad Data, You Know I’ve Had My Share: Library Book Acquisition Patterns

We have had assumptions about the academic book market that probably are just not true.

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Jul 23, 2018
  • 24 Comments

Consolidation in Academic Publishing Has a New Target

Research publishers may acquire textbook publishers in order to increase market share in libraries with inclusive access programs

  • By Joseph Esposito
  • Mar 8, 2018
  • 7 Comments

Discovery Should Be Delivery: User-Centric Principles for Discovery as a Service

Library discovery can only succeed in reaching a high market share if it is intensely user-centered. Articulating user-centric principles for discovery has enabled the University Library to Illinois to evolve a discovery environment that meets the needs of its community of users.

  • By Lisa Janicke Hinchliffe
  • Jan 8, 2018
  • 3 Comments
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