Professional Reading Shelf
Digital Libraries
Call for Papers: Special Issue on Digital Libraries and eScience
To be published in the International Journal on Digital Libraries.
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eBooks–Digitization–Legal Issues
Copyright
Source: Digital Library Federation and Council on Library and Information
Acquiring Copyright Permission To Digitize and Provide Open Access to Books
“This report focuses on three efforts at Carnegie Mellon University to acquire copyright permission to digitize and provide open access to books-that is, to make books freely available on the Internet for public use. [1] To provide a context for the studies that form the basis of this report, the report begins with an overview of copyright laws, licensing practices, and technological developments that have brought about dramatic changes in the cost and dissemination of scholarly information. This section also describes the impact that these changes have had on research, learning, and libraries. The three studies, including data analyses that explore the response and success rates with different types of publishers and publications and transaction costs, are then presented in detail. Anecdotes illuminate the effort required and problems encountered in trying to acquire copyright permission for open access, from the difficulty of determining copyright status and ownership and locating copyright owners to the questions, concerns, record-keeping methods, and changing contractual practices that constrain publishers’ embrace of open access. The report describes how lessons learned in each study were applied in the next study and the benefits of flexible and innovative approaches to acquiring copyright permission.”
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National Archives–United Kingdom
Source: IWR
Archives site upgraded for FoI
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Access Services
Source: ARL
New SPEC Kit (Summary Only): SPEC Kit 290: Access Services
“In 1991, SPEC Kit 179, Access Services: Organization and Management, documented the emergence of a new trend in ARL member libraries: over the course of a decade, a variety of services related to providing access to library resources were being brought under one administrative umbrella, a department that was typically called ‘Circulation,’ though a growing number of libraries began to use the term ‘Access Services.’ This new SPEC survey, conducted in spring 2005, tracks developments and trends in access services since 1995. The survey results show a steady evolution in department name from ‘Circulation’ to ‘Access Services’ and an increasing relevance of this department’s functions to library users.” Table of Contents and Exec Summary (PDF).
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Metadata–United States Government
Source: GCN
GSA: Metadata not essential for search
“Metadata and other advanced preparation techniques may not be required to make government information available for public search, according to feedback the General Services Administration received from a request for information it posted earlier this year.”

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