The July/August 2007 Issue of CLIR Issues is Now Online
Articles include:

+ Digital Scholarship: What’s All the Fuss? by Stephen Nichols

+ Cyberinfrastructure: It’s All about Sharing by Amy Friedlander

+ CLIR Receives Mellon Grant to Examine Scholarly Utility of Mass-Digitization Projects

+ CLIR to Seek Public Comment on White Paper

IN MID-AUGUST, CLIR will make available for public comment a draft white paper examining preservation issues relevant to mass-digitization projects such as those being done by Google, Microsoft, and the Open Content Alliance. The white paper is distinct from, but complementary to, another CLIR effort to investigate the scholarly utility of mass-digitized content…The draft white paper will be available August 22 at http://www.clir.org/activities/details/mdpres.html. The public comment period will close September 24. CLIR will issue a final print and electronic report later this fall.

Source: Council on Library and Information Resource

See Also: Michael Keller Appointed CLIR Senior Presidential Fellow

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