Google Book Scanning Project is Fair!

Big success for the Google Book project and the libraries involved in this initiative. Yesterday a judge ruled that the project did not break any fair use regulations and dismissed the lawsuit.Access full text of the ruling here, thanks to Karen Coyle’s blog...

The National Digital Public Library is now live

Launched on April 18, 2013 the Digital Public Library of America aims to “make the holdings of America’s research libraries, archives, and museums available to all Americans—and eventually to everyone in the world—online and free of...

Ebook Trends in 2013

E book prices continue to fall:In the past few months, pricing of ebooks and issues of competition are coming into sharper focus. Changes are coming much faster in the publishing world today—prices for titles are dropping and we are seeing the development of new...

Undergrads and IT – 2012 survey

EDUCAUSE Center for Applied Research has released its annual survey of undergraduates’ attitude towards technology in Higher Education.Click on the image for the full infographic.Read the entire report.