In Google Books appeal, Author’s Guild calls for the creation of something that already exists: a National Digital Library
The Authors Guild appeal against the dismissal of the Google Books lawsuit got a shot in the arm yesterday when a number of major authors and organizations came out in… Read more »
An update on the Digital Public Library of America
This week in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Jennifer Howard writes about how the Digital Public Library of America has been doing since its launch seven months ago. One highlight… Read more »
The utopian pragmatism of the National Digital Public Library
We’ve been counting down the days to the April 18th launch of the Digital Public Library of America, and in the New York Review of Books last week, Robert Darnton, director of… Read more »
Countdown to the Digital Public Library of America launch
With just a month to go before the projected launch date for the Digital Public Library of America, Dan Cohen, the newly hired Executive Director, was recently interviewed in Library… Read more »
Harvard librarian promises free Digital Public Library of America by 2013
At a talk at Columbia Law School on April 2, Harvard University librarian Robert Darnton promised that the Digital Public Library of America, a nonprofit effort to offer free access… Read more »