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Out of Print Books Get New Life via Amazon and Participating Libraries

Why settle for mere digital copies of books (a la the Google Book Search project and the Open Content Alliance) when you can have an edition printed, bound and sent to you in the mail? That’s the twist...

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Soundprint’s ‘Who Needs Libraries?’

OhioLINK’s Meg Spernoga pointed our staff to a 30 minute audio documentary called Who Needs Libraries? from Soundprint.org:As more and more information is available on-line, as Amazon rolls out new...

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Vint Cerf on the Origins of 32-bit IP Addressing

Via a weekly wrap-up post by Dion Almaer on the Google Code Blog comes mention of a Google Tech Talk video from their IPv6 Conference 2008. It is a panel discussion called “What will the IPv6 Internet...

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A Glimpse into the Internet Archive’s Scanning and Print-on-Demand Operations

Wired magazine published a brief story and online photo gallery of the book scanning and print-on-demand projects at the Internet Archive. It is a fascinating glimpse into their vision and processes....

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Preserving Digital Video

My place of work is looking to acquire educational videos in a digital form with an eye towards long-term preservation. At this point we receive a physical form (preferably DVD, but sometimes VHS) and...

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Interesting Google Book Search Settlement Bits in Advance of Thursday’s...

Thursday will be a big day in the Google Book Search lawsuit settlement: the parties to the lawsuit, along with the objectors, supporters, and friends-of-the-court, will be in the courtroom of United...

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Thursday Threads: Amazon Pressures Publishers, Academic Spam, Mechanical Turk...

Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:by E-mailby RSSDelivered by FeedBurnerWith the close of the year approaching, this issue marks the 14th week of DLTJ Thursday Threads. This issue has a publisher’s view of...

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Thursday Threads: Personal Book Digitizer, Status of Book Piracy, Core...

Receive DLTJ Thursday Threads:by E-mailby RSSDelivered by FeedBurnerIt wasn’t too long ago that the music industry was in an uproar about stories of how easy it was to copy digital audio files and make...

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Local and Unique and Digital: A Evolving Trend for Libraries and Cultural...

These are slides and audio from presentation given at the LOUIS Users Group meeting, on October 4, 2013, in Baton Rouge, LA. The description of the talk was:Libraries have been digitizing materials for...

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