libraryadvocates:The American Library Association (ALA) today released a new report examining critical issues underlying equitable access to digital content through our nation’s libraries. In the report, titled “E-content: The Digital Dialogue,” authors explore an unprecedented and splintered landscape in which several major publishers refuse to sell ebooks to libraries; proprietary platforms fragment our cultural record; and reader privacy is endangered.
(via libraryjournal)
“An exhibition entitled The Rock and Roll Public Library will open March 9 in London. The Subway Gallery will showcase more than 10,000 items from Clash lead guitarist Mick Jones’s personal collection of books, videos and other memorabilia, according to the Hampstead and Highgate Express.”
(via LISNews) via shrinkinglibrarian
(Source: shrinkinglibrarian)
thelibrarianontherun:The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum opened its new library and archives to the public on Tuesday to give scholars and fans access to the stories behind the music through such “artifacts” as personal letters from Madonna and Aretha Franklin and 1981-82 video of the Rolling Stones tour. The collection, catalogued over the last few years, includes more than 3,500 books, 1,400 audio recordings and 270 videos, and is housed in the new four-story, $12 million building.
I want to go!
(via librarianista)
streetsofglory:Different styles of book-binding.
(via fuckyeahbookarts)
For all you avid readers/librarians:January 1st was Public Domain Day.
On that day, unpublished works by authors who died prior to 1942 entered the public domain. That means that if you have works in your collection by authors such as James Joyce, Louis Brandeis, Virginia Woolf, and Sherwood Anderson, they may now be in the public domain. There are two important caveats. First, these works must never have been published; just having a manuscript version in your collection is not enough. Second, the works cannot be “works made for hire.”Something that Louis Brandeis wrote as part of his employment would be protected until 120 years after the date of its creation.
You can find out more about Public Domain Day and individuals whose writings
have entered the public domain at http://www.publicdomainday.org/2012. You
can also check the updated version of “Copyright Term and the Public Domain
in the United States” found at
http://copyright.cornell.edu/resources/publicdomain.cfm. I have made some
small changes to better reflect the copyright status of foreign works
published after 1978 and to take into account the adherence of Vanuatu and
Laos to the Berne Convention, but mostly it has been updated to reflect the
additional year of public domain material.
via Cornell University Library
libraryjournal:Oregon and Delaware Post Digital Collections With Agricultural Roots — The Digital Shift http://t.co/cmqDfXt8
bookcoverdesign:selected covers from the Great Food series (2011)
design: Coralie Bickford-Smith lettering: Stephen Raw
