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12
Oct

E-Book Readers: Parables of Closed and Open

During a discussion of e-book readers on a recent episode of Digital Campus, I made a comparison between Amazon'
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09
Oct

Briefly Noted for October 9, 2009

DSpace Reaches 700 Instances Worldwide — The DuraSpace blog is reporting that there are now more than 700 instances of DSpace.
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09
Oct

UVA Scholars' Lab Working to Connect Omeka and Fedora

The Scholars' Lab at the University of Virginia is working on a new plugin for Omeka that would connect
08
Oct

Briefly Noted for October 8, 2009

Setback for GPO Digitization Program — Via DigitalKoans, the United States Government Printing Office (GPO) has announced on its listserv that
07
Oct

Briefly Noted for October 7, 2009

Deadline Set for Google Books Settlement — Judge Chin has set a deadline of November 9, 2009 for a revised settlement
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07
Oct

A Google Books Cautionary Tale

This one made the rounds of Twitter earlier today thanks to Jo Guldi. This month Wired Magazine tells a cautionary
06
Oct

Briefly Noted for October 6, 2009

Gmail Helps Spam Be More Annoying? — Yesterday Google began rolling out a new “feature” called “enhanced email” to some Gmail
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05
Oct

Briefly Noted for October 5, 2009

The Future of Libraries — Broadcasting from my very own neighborhood, local Washington DC NPR personality, Kojo Nmandi, hosted a special
03
Oct

Privatizing Holocaust History?

For the past few years, the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) has undertaken a series of public-private digitization partnerships,
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01
Oct

SI and Flickr Commons

Originally published in the journal Archival Science, the Smithsonian Institution Libraries has just released under open access terms a report
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