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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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No separation between physical and digital

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THROUGHOUT history, libraries have been grounded in physical artefacts and a sense of place – in print books and library buildings. The advent of digital collections, and the notion of a ‘digital library’, prompted something of an existential crisis, presaging the potential demise of libraries as physical places.

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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. ?They?re Instead of a library of marks, a conventional library of books ? But even if she didn?

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The whole sector needs to work together

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THE choice was either to teach a procurement expert about libraries or to teach a librarian about procurement. so making that framework more appropriate to the library sector. One aim is to find flexibility and grow common ground between suppliers and university libraries. It would allow libraries to say ?I Innovation.