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Libraries Week 2019 celebrates libraries in a digital world

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Libraries Week 2019 celebrates libraries in a digital world. Annual Libraries Week celebrations (7-12 October 2019) will showcase how libraries have transformed their digital offer, featuring events and activities in more than 1,000 libraries across the UK. 500 to donate to a library of your choice.

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Buyer's Guide 2024 - coming soon

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This year’s Buyers’ Guide features 142 suppliers whose products and services are dispersed among nearly 50 categories from accessibility products to youth library suppliers. In the piece he also explains how investors see the library sector, and the role that buyers in big institutions can play in helping start-ups.

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Romance Fiction

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by Maura Seale , History Librarian, University of Michigan, and Steve Ammidown , Independent Researcher (Maura): The University of Michigan Library began a web archiving pilot project in 2018. In 2019, the web archiving team issued a call for additional collections and I proposed a new collection on popular romance fiction.

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Why is most of the 20th Century invisible to AI?

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ve read that only seven libraries have been taken to court in the UK. As chair of a university library committee, she has followed the current ebook pricing controversy and believes it is a symptom of a deeper problem. ? But even if she didn? They should ask ?what?s s the worst thing that can happen?? And if they?re

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Navigating the complex legal landscape of the information professions.

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Library, information and knowledge professionals are often at the front line of managing and monitoring their organisation?s Previously she was Professor of Information Management at Robert Gordon University where she focused on legal and ethical issues relating to digital libraries. Based on the authors? Compliance Methodology?,

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The Poetical Star

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This post is written by Megan Barrett, a long time student employee in the Digital Library Center in Special Collections & Archives. I am currently a senior studying Art History, and I’ve had the opportunity to work as a Special Collections & Archives assistant for the past three years.

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Know your rights: the key to eBook access

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Know your rights: the key to eBook access. Maintaining the status quo for public libraries ? Here he speaks to Rob Mackinlay about why not challenging the methods used by publishers to protect their content will damage not only libraries, but also threatens research and innovation. ?Publishers This has undermined libraries?

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