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91´«Ã½ responds to Penguin Random House e-book licensing announcement
New York City – Responding to a Penguin Random House announcement today that it will implement perpetual access for all of its e-book titles and cap prices per title, the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) said it welcomes improvement in long-term access...
91´«Ã½ President commends Simon & Schuster on e-book licensing pilot program
Offers 50% discount on second year of 2-year lending term WASHINGTON, D.C. – The 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) and its Digital Content Working Group (DCWG) welcomed the announcement of Simon & Schuster’s new pilot on library e-book licensing. “This...
New privacy guidelines encourage libraries and vendors to work together to protect reader privacy
CHICAGO — On June 29, 2015, the 91´«Ã½'s Intellectual Freedom Committee approved a new document, "Library Privacy Guidelines for E-book Lending and Digital Content Vendors." The document, which outlines best practices for vendors to...
A new edition of De Saulles’ 'Information 2.0'
CHICAGO — The fully updated second edition of Martin De Saulles’ “ Information 2.0: New Models of Information Production, Distribution and Consumption,” published by Facet Publishing, is now available through the 91´«Ã½ Store. It provides a cutting-edge...
Mobile libraries, from devices to people
CHICAGO —The brand new installment of the highly successful M-Libraries series published by Facet Publishing, “ M-Libraries 5: From Devices to People,” is now available through the 91´«Ã½ Store. Edited by Gill Needham and Mohamed Ally, this collection brings...
SAN FRANCISCO—Over the last three years, the Pew Research Center has deftly documented how Americans perceive, use and aspire for U.S. public libraries. From e-book readership to library user typologies, to better understanding how Hispanics use public...
New American Libraries supplement finds libraries on the offense in the digital revolution
Washington, D.C.—Moving ahead is the overarching theme of the new digital supplement Digital Futures from American Libraries magazine. This report from the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) features articles both on how libraries are innovating and...
Panel to discuss ebook lending growth at 2015 91´«Ã½ Annual Conference
SAN FRANCISCO—A leading panel of library and publishing experts will provide an update on the library ebook lending market and discuss best ways for libraries to advance library access to digital content at the 2015 91´«Ã½’s (91´«Ã½)...
VMM15: Your historic opportunity to vote on a VMM resolution
CHICAGO — Be one of more than 500 members who will have the first-time ever opportunity to vote on a resolution submitted via the Virtual Membership Meeting.
ALSC Invites E-book Submissions for the 2016 Mildred L. Batchelder Award Pilot Program
CHICAGO — The Association for Library Services to Children (ALSC) announces that e-books, including a book published in both the country of origin and the United States exclusively as e-books or a book published in both countries as an e-book and print...
Panel of ebook policy experts to address 2015 91´«Ã½ Midwinter Meeting
CHICAGO—A leading panel of library and publishing experts will provide an update on the library ebook lending market and discuss the best ways for libraries to bring together authors and readers in the digital age at the 2015 91´«Ã½...
91´«Ã½ welcomes Simon & Schuster change to Buy It Now program
WASHINGTON, D.C.—The 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) and its Digital Content Working Group (DCWG) today welcomes Simon & Schuster’s announcement that it will allow libraries to opt into the “Buy It Now” program. The publisher began offering all of its...
91´«Ã½ welcomes Adobe action; greater attention to reader privacy concerns
Today, Carolyn Anthony and Erika Linke, co-chairs of the 91´«Ã½ (91´«Ã½) Digital Content Working Group (DCWG), released the following statement regarding the Adobe Digital Editions (ADE) software update: "Librarians have long been...
Lorcan Dempsey on libraries, services and networks
CHICAGO — Since he began posting in 2003, Lorcan Dempsey has used his blog to explore nearly every important facet of library technology, from the emergence of Web 2.0 as a concept to open source ILS tools and the push to web-scale library management...
A LITA guide to using massive digital libraries
CHICAGO — Some have viewed the ascendance of the digital library as some kind of existential apocalypse, nothing less than the beginning of the end for the traditional library. But Andrew Weiss, recognizing the concept of the library as a "big idea" that...
