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Contexts and Contributions: Building the Distributed Library
The focus of this report is an analysis of digital library aggregation services. As its title suggests it spends some time discussing environmental contexts, as well as particular cases (or contributions). [...] The [...] report aims to inform DLF's continuing efforts "to foster better teaching and scholarship through easier, more relevant discovery of digital resources, and a much greater ability for libraries to build more responsive local services on top of a distributed metadata platform"

Source: Lorcan Dempsey's Weblog

Les bibliothèques de Cornell University ont choisi Microsoft pour numériser une partie significative de leurs ouvrages (déjà dans le domaine public) et donc Windows Live Search Books pour l'exposition en ligne.

Source: Library Journal

"The nonsense of copyright in libraries : digital information and the right to copy", un document paru dans Proceedings LIANZA Conference 2006, Wellington, New Zealand. Extrait:

"The notion of copyright is deeply entrenched in the psyche of librarians, who remain one of the few groups who consistently support or uphold it. Given the growth of digital information and consequential change in the behaviour of information creators and users the paper posits that copyright administration in libraries has become a cumbersome burden whose “time has come”. Changes in information provision by libraries towards delivering more digital information have ironically highlighted the paradox libraries face between providing the best possible service and upholding copyright. The notion that there exists in the digital environment a “right to copy” is put forward. Copyright is legally complicated, controversial, subject to a number of misunderstandings and generally not fully understood even by the librarians whose daily tasks include administering it."

Source: Open Access News

L'Université de Cambridge (avec l'aide de quelques sponsors) propose "The complete work of Charles Darwin Online", une collection des oeuvres de C. Darwin en ligne et en accès libre.

Source: Techmeme

A noter aussi dans le D-Lib de septembre :

- Perspectives on Teachers as Digital Library Users (Consumers, Contributors, and Designers)

Petit extrait, 1er § : [...] digital libraries should exploit "Web 2.0" capabilities in order to support collaboration, contextualization, and user contributions. In short, digital libraries should implement new models of user interaction that go beyond simple (but powerful) search [...]