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“In the bigger picture, it is worth noting that the ground has shifted considerably since the scanning controversy first erupted. Today, ebooks are everywhere and the out-of-print works that Google is holding have little economic value (aside from improving the company’s search algorithm). Compared ...

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2 days ago by erinserb

As a throwback to my old Horizon/Wimba days at University of Alabama, I wanted to comment on the most recent webinar provided by The Center for Intellectual Property, University of Maryland University College. It felt good to be ”back in the Wimba saddle” again. It has been particularly rewarding to ...

McEirin the Librarian - erinserb.wordpress.com · 1 reference

2 days ago by Emil Hoelter

After a recent conversation with a friend about digital piracy--and its alleged negative impact on sales of music albums and movie tickets--I found myself wondering how exactly a distributor could prove that piracy really is to blame for a decline in sales. That is, how could they prove that the ris ...

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3 days ago by Anupam Saxena

The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) has rolled out a web interface for online authentication of Aadhaar numbers, reports The Economic Times. The interface would allow banks, telecom companies and government departments to authenticate an Indian resident on the basis of his Aadhaar n ...

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4 days ago by David Ferriero

On January 10th, I blogged about the “Yes We Scan” petitions proposed by Carl Malamud’s PublicResource.org on the White House’s We The People petition platform. “Yes We Scan” calls for a national strategy, and even a Federal Scanning Commission, to figure out what it would take to digitize the holdi ...

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4 days ago by ohiohistory

On February 6, 1862, Confederate General Lloyd Tilghman surrendered Fort Henry, located on the Tennessee River, to Union forces led by Ohioan General Ulysses S. Grant. The Belmont Chronicle declared this a “Brilliant Naval Victory” in its February 13, 1862 issue. Excerpt from the Belmont Chronicle, ...

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4 days ago by Daniel Kalder

“If we were to provide literary fiction to the broadest audience possible, that included distributing it to people electronically.” By Daniel Kalder In 2007, Publishers Weekly hailed Dzanc Books as “the future of publishing” — even though they only had one book in print at the time. Since then Dzanc ...

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8 days ago by Jeanne

The image of Alexander Calder above shows him in his studio, circa 1950. It is from a folder titled Photographs: Calder at Work, 1927-1956, undated, part of Alexander Calder’s Papers held by the Smithsonian Archives of American Art and available online through the efforts of their digitization proje ...

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9 days ago by Museum Anthropology Editors

Now live online at www.museum.nps.govThis searchable online database provides access to thousands of images and records from the National Park Service (NPS) museum collections. NPS museum collections include diverse disciplines and have unique associations with park cultural and natural resources, e ...

Museum Anthropology - museumanthropology.blogspot.com · 21 references

10 days ago by IM

www.WSIQualitySolutions.com – We have shifted our offline buyer behaviors to online, making use of lookup engines and social networks to support us decide what we want to buy and from whom. This video clip illustrates how we have all turn out to be digital buyers in 1 way or abother via what we phon ...

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