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This report of a panel session organized by the author at the 2008 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) presents the DRM issue in four contexts: use restrictions in libraries, the anti-circumvention rules of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), commercial and academic licensing and DRM-free software alternatives. The four panelists were Kristin R. Eschenfelder, associate professor at the School of Library and Information Studies of the University of Wisconsin-Madison and recipient of multiple grants for her work on DRM; Kevin L. Smith, J.D., scholarly communications officer at Duke University and author of the highly regarded web log Scholarly Communications @ Duke; Bill Burger, vice president of marketing at the Copyright Clearance Center (CCC), a leading provider of content licensing solutions for corporations and academic institutions; and John Sullivan, operations manager at the Free Software Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes the development and use of free software and campaigns against DRM. The session was recorded in October 2008 and is complemented in this report with a 2009 update to the DMCA legislation.

1. Gawronski v. Amazon.com: Amazon's New Kindle Deletion Rules
2. MPAA Attorney Says Even One Personal Backup Copy of DVD is Illegal
3. Technological Accommodation of Conflicts between Freedom of Expression and DRM: The First Empirical Assessment
4. Controlling Access to and Use of Online Cultural Collections: A Survey of U.S. Archives, Libraries and Museums for IMLS
5. “Will Copyright Law Prevent a Digital Library from Becoming Reality?”

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To mark the opening of its photostream in the Commons today, the National Archives is posting a new photo set containing more than two hundred photographs of the American West by renowned American photographer Ansel Adams. The photographs, taken between 1941 and 1942 as part of a Department of the Interior mural project, feature the Grand Canyon, Yellowstone, Glacier and Zion national parks, in addition to Death Valley, Saguero, and Canyon de Chelly national monuments.

The Ansel Adams photographs join a larger selection of more than 3,000 National Archives images that are part of the National Archives' Flickr photostream. The photostream contains a variety of images from some of the National Archives most popular collections, including images of the Civil War by Mathew Brady and associates; images from the Environmental Protection Agency's 1970s photo-documentary project DOCUMERICA; images from the Records of the Women's Bureau depicting women in the war labor effort during World War II; and a grouping of favorite photos and documents from the National Archives, featuring among others the 1970 photograph of President Nixon shaking hands with Elvis Presley.

1. Copyright and Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums
2. "Smithsonian Team Flickr: A Library, Archives, and Museums Collaboration in Web 2.0 Space"
3. Google Books Adds Creative Commons Licence Options
4. Carolina Digital Library and Archives Fall-Winter 08/09 Newsletter
5. DCC Overview of the Science Commons

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As a member of the Digital Programs Team and under the direction of the Digital Programs Team Leader, the Applications Developer provides programming support for UConn's local digital collections workflows, including data-driven planning, capture, metadata handling, efficient and effective discovery tools, and enabling archival master file storage toward a trusted digital repository, all conformant with the best practices of cultural heritage and higher education institutions. The incumbent provides programming, research, and development for digital collections, so that the UConn Libraries can fulfill related strategic objectives in support of the University's Academic Plan. Within a project management environment, the Applications Developer defines, develops, tests, analyzes, and maintains new software and Web applications that support the creation and maintenance of Library information resources and services. With growing collections of diverse digital content, including text, maps and geospatial data, photographs, and other information objects, the next level of growth for UConn will be significant progress toward semantically integrating these resources by means of creative—yet standards-compliant—applications, which the incumbent will play a critical role in developing. The incumbent is responsible for creating applications and for assisting others in developing and implementing Web resources and services that are well integrated into the current information server environment.

The Applications Developer works with the Digital Projects Librarian, the Digital Integration Librarian, the Preservation Librarian, the Libraries' Webmaster, and the IT team to provide customized tools for creating and managing collection and access services in the University of Connecticut Libraries and to provide leadership in the collaborative process to develop innovative access and delivery of the Libraries' digital resources.

The Libraries are also recruiting a second Computer Programmer Analyst II/Applications Developer (see the above URL for description).

1. Digital Repository Developer at Duke University
2. Digital Services Librarian at Loyola University Chicago
3. Systems Analyst/Programmer at Indiana University
4. Digital Library Jobs: Digital Resources and Imaging Services Programmer/Analyst at University of Dublin
5. Digital Library Jobs: Library Applications Developer at the University of Maryland

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Librarians in the midst of conversations with members of the campus community are often hesitant to bring up scholarly communication issues. Numerous online resources have been created in the past few years to help campuses address these issues, but some of us, whether or not we are familiar with these resources and are comfortable with the relevant concepts, aren't quite ready to talk about the resources and translate the concepts into practices. This article aims to provide scenarios of how such resources can come in handy during day-to-day interaction with faculty and students to help our campuses manage change and achieve an information sharing environment that benefits everyone.

1. Ph.D Dissertation: "Scholarly Communication Changing: The Implications of Open Access"
2. "Campus Outreach to Scholarly Society Leaders, Editors, and Members: Promoting Positive Change and a Continuing Role for Scholarly Societies"
3. Scholarly Communication 101: Starting with the Basics Workshop Materials Added to Scholarly Communication Toolkit
4. “Summary and Conclusions. Final Chapter of Scholarly Communication for Librarians“
5. “Leading Change in the System of Scholarly Communication: A Case Study of Engaging Liaison Librarians for Outreach to Faculty”

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Providing leadership in a team-based environment the person in this position will:

• oversee library technology; web services; the library's ILS (Innovative Interfaces Millennium); technical services; electronic resource management; user services; and the libraries' service desks
• provide leadership for transformational and effective user-centered services as the libraries work to define and implement delivery of basic reference, circulation, and all other services through a combined desk model
• lead the libraries in the adaptation and integration of leading edge technology
• direct the development, implementation, and evaluation of innovative tools, methods, and strategies for acquiring, cataloging, processing and preserving materials
• ensure alignment between Technology and Information Services unit and overall library mission, goals, and values

1. Associate University Librarian for Digital Initiatives & Information Technology at UCLA
2. Library IT Jobs: Director of Resource Services/Information Technology at Boston Public
3. Library IT Jobs: Associate University Librarian Information Systems & Technical Services at University of Lethbridge
4. Library IT Jobs: Associate University Librarian, Client Services and Technology at University of Regina
5. Library IT Jobs: Associate University Librarian for Information Technology at Duke

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The report sets up a number of challenges and scenarios for the future of the research library. The libraries must take some strategic future choices. Should the library maintain its traditional role or should it become a knowledge center for research and learning?

For a long time Denmark's Electronic Research Library, DEFF, has wished to make a study of the future library service of researchers and scientists. By engaging The Lime Guild this job was done throughout 2009. The Lime Guild has done several analyses, which have had the purpose to predict future scenarios for the research libraries in relation to the development within the research system and to the future demands of the researchers.

An essential part of conducting this study was to do interviews with interested parties and the main stakeholders in DEFF. This group of people includes both vice-chancellors and deans at universities, library directors of development and also representatives from DEFF's steering committee and liaison group. Also key international experts have contributed generously to the study.

1. University of Tennessee, Knoxville Gets IMLS Grant to Study Value of Academic Libraries
2. Concordia University Launches Spectrum: Concordia University Research Repository
3. RIN Briefing Note: Scholarly Books and Journals at Risk: Responding to the Challenges of a Changing Economy
4. Research Library Issues: ARL’s Renamed E-Only Bimonthly Report
5. Blog Explores Whether a Primarily Digital Research Library Is Feasible

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The online guide is directed to small independent teams and provides practical information on planning, setting up, launching, publishing and managing an open access scholarly journal. Users can take advantage of additional resources in the form of links to related information, samples of applied practices and downloadable tools that can be adapted. The guide seeks to be interactive, allowing users to share their own best practices, tips and suggestions through a comment field. Although the guide contains some information that is specific to the Nordic region, most of its content can be applied internationally.

1. Income Models for Open Access: An Overview of Current Practice
2. Nature Publishing Group Will Publish New Open Access Journal, Nature Communications
3. African Journals Online Migrates to Open Journal Systems Platform
4. Peter Suber: “A Field Guide to Misunderstandings about Open Access”
5. DOAJ and e-Depot to Preserve Open Access Journals

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The Scholarly Communication Librarian plays the central role in advising NYU faculty, students, librarians and information technologists about use, ownership and options for sharing of copyrighted materials in all information formats. Reporting to the Libraries Director of Public Services, this position works closely with a range of programs across the Division and NYU ITS .du Services. Work on the open courseware pilot will be coordinated by the Director of Academic Technologies in NYU ITS.

1. Librarian, Scholarly Communication at University of Massachusetts Medical School
2. Office of Scholarly Communication Program Manager at Harvard
3. Digital Library Jobs: Scholarly Communication Librarian at University of Ottawa
4. Digital Library Jobs: Scholarly Communication Librarian at Wake Forest
5. Digital Library Jobs: Scholarly Communication Librarian at City of Hope Graff Scientific & Medical Library

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Open Access—meaning free access to scientific and scholarly information—is winning ground, and more and more information is becoming freely accessible to the public. The parties concerned—including publishers—are increasingly accepting Open Access as the norm. At the Open Access seminar organised by SURF in Amsterdam, Prof. Jos Engelen, chairman of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), announced that his organisation would be providing a special Open Access budget of EUR 2.5m.

In "Nederland 'Open Access-Land'" (in Dutch), it is stated that the NWO will also establish a €2.5 million contingency fund and that researchers will apply for €5,000 project grants for open access publications.

The above press release also states that:

The Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) has reached agreement with Springer that in 2010 all articles by Dutch researchers in Springer journals will be made available Open Access, subject to the author agreeing.

1. Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research Will Commit 5 Million Euros to Open Access Publication
2. Swedish Research Council Adopts Open Access Mandate
3. Open Access—What Are the Economic Benefits? A Comparison of the United Kingdom, Netherlands and Denmark
4. Open Access Bill: Senators Cornyn and Lieberman Re-Introduce Federal Research Public Access Act (FRPAA)
5. Costs and Benefits of Research Communication: The Dutch Situation

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Serve as project manager for digitization projects, coordinating digitization plans and responsibilities with partners, and communicating with faculty to understand and integrate their research and teaching goals.

Provide operational planning and day-to-day management of the Library System's digital collections.

Oversee converting textual, image, audio, and video materials into digital form; and migration of digital objects into new formats.

1. Digital Services Librarian at Loyola University Chicago
2. Digital Library Jobs: Digital Projects Coordinator at Mississippi State
3. Digital Library Jobs: Digital Initiatives Librarian at the University of New Mexico Libraries
4. Digital Library Jobs: Digital Services Librarian at Oxford College of Emory University
5. Digital Library Jobs: Digital Services Librarian at Bridgewater State

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The Department of Justice today advised the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York that despite the substantial progress reflected in the proposed amended settlement agreement in The Authors Guild Inc. et al. v. Google Inc., class certification, copyright and antitrust issues remain. The department also said that the United States remains committed to working with the parties on issues concerning the scope and content of the settlement.

In its statement of interest filed with the court today, the department stated, "Although the United States believes the parties have approached this effort in good faith and the amended settlement agreement is more circumscribed in its sweep than the original proposed settlement, the amended settlement agreement suffers from the same core problem as the original agreement: it is an attempt to use the class action mechanism to implement forward-looking business arrangements that go far beyond the dispute before the court in this litigation."

On Sept. 18, 2009, the department submitted views to the court on the original proposed settlement agreement. At that time, the department proposed that the parties consider changes to the agreement that might help address the United States' concerns, including imposing limitations on the most open-ended provisions for future licensing, eliminating potential conflicts among class members, providing additional protections for unknown rights holders, addressing the concerns of foreign authors and publishers, eliminating the joint-pricing mechanisms among publishers and authors, and providing a mechanism by which Google's competitors can gain comparable access.

In today's filing, the department recognized that the parties made substantial progress on a number of these issues. For example, the proposed amended settlement agreement eliminates certain open-ended provisions that would have allowed Google to engage in certain unspecified future uses, appoints a fiduciary to protect rightsholders of unclaimed works, reduces the number of foreign works in the settlement class, and eliminates the most-favored nation provision that would have guaranteed Google optimal license terms into the future. However, the changes do not fully resolve the United States' concerns. The department also said that the amended settlement agreement still confers significant and possibly anticompetitive advantages on Google as a single entity, thereby enabling the company to be the only competitor in the digital marketplace with the rights to distribute and otherwise exploit a vast array of works in multiple formats.

The department continues to believe that a properly structured settlement agreement in this case offers the potential for important societal benefits. The department stated that it is committed to continuing to work with the parties and other stakeholders to help develop solutions through which copyright holders could allow for digital use of their works by Google and others, whether through legislative or market-based activities.

Read more about it at "Department of Justice Criticizes Amended Google Settlement over Copyright, Antitrust Issues"; "DOJ: Google Book Settlement Better, but Not Yet Good"; an "DOJ on Amended Google Books Settlement: Better, but Still Opposed."

1. Google Book Search Settlement Amended
2. Kenneth Crews on the U.S. Department of Justice Google Book Search Settlement Filing
3. U.S. Department of Justice Files Objection to Google Book Search Settlement
4. Justice Department Sends Civil Investigative Demands to Google about Google Book Search Settlement
5. Justice Department Launches Antitrust Investigation into Google Book Search Settlement

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Stanford’s expanded agreement, which establishes it as a Fully Participating Library under the terms of the amended settlement agreement, is a milestone in Stanford’s commitment to the program and to the provision of public access to millions of its books. . . .

University Librarian Michael A. Keller said, "We are highly supportive of the amended settlement, which offers an enormous public good, making the full text of millions of books available to the American public."

Keller added that another effect of the settlement is to respect the rights and prerogatives of authors and publishers at the same time as it increases public access. "The settlement creates a working partnership among authors, publishers, libraries and Google that will usher in a revolutionary change in access to books on library shelves, even beyond the incredibly powerful vision that Google Books first developed. It’s no longer just about finding books of potential interest; it makes them vastly more readily readable. The agreement also compensates authors and publishers for the use of works that, by virtue of being out of print, would not have earned the rightsholders any income—a novel and, for most authors, a most welcome innovation."

Over the past five years, Google has scanned over 1.7 million books owned by Stanford, and plans to scan millions more. More than two dozen other major libraries around the world are now involved in this project.

1. Department of Justice Files Statement about Amended Google Book Search Settlement
2. A Guide for the Perplexed Part III: The Amended Settlement Agreement
3. Google Book Search Settlement Amended
4. A Guide for the Perplexed Part II: The Amended Google-Michigan Agreement
5. ACRL, ALA, and ARL File Comments about Google Book Search Settlement

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The University of Virginia Library seeks a talented and dynamic individual to serve as a web applications developer for a two-year grant funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. This position will work closely with a cohort of Digital Archivists from partner institutions (national and international) on an innovative initiative entitled: Born Digital Collections: An Inter-Institutional Model for Stewardship (AIMS); these archivists will provide the use cases for AIMS. This two-year, grant-funded position will develop web applications and execute the functional requirements for processing and receiving digitally born materials into the Library's managed content environment. The position will work under the guidance of the UVa library's Chief Architect for the Online Library Environment to ensure the timely and proper integration of technology related to Hydra (http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/innovation/hydra/), a next-generation, web-based repository-aware application services environment for managing, preserving, and delivering digital content. For specific skills and duties, please see the job description.

1. Digital Archivist at Stanford University
2. Digital Archivist, Digital Curation Services at University of Virginia
3. Digital Initiatives and Scholarly Communications Librarian at West Virginia University
4. Digital Library Jobs: Library Applications Developer at the University of Maryland
5. Digital Library Jobs: Digital Humanities Specialist at Virginia

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The registry offers a single point of access to a comprehensive overview of member web archiving efforts and outputs. Twenty-one archives from around the world are currently included; updates will be added as additional archives are made accessible by IIPC members.

In addition to a detailed description of each web archive, the following information is included:

• Collecting institution
• Start date
• Archive interface language(s)
• Access methods (URL search, keyword search, full text search, thematic, etc.)
• Harvesting methods (National domain, event, thematic, etc.)
• Access restrictions

The registry was put in place by the IIPC Access Working Group, which focuses on initiatives, procedures and tools required to provide immediate and future to access archived web material. The registry will also provide a basis for IIPC to explore integrated access and search in the future.

1. Harvard University Library Launched Web Archive Collection Service (WAX)
2. Digital Preservation: Data Transfer from Internet Archive's Archive-It to LOCKSS Demonstrated
3. Foundation Grants for Preservation in Libraries, Archives, and Museums, 2009 Edition
4. Copyright and Related Issues Relevant to Digital Preservation and Dissemination of Unpublished Pre-1972 Sound Recordings by Libraries and Archives
5. iPRES 2008: Proceedings of The Fifth International Conference on Preservation of Digital Objects

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Performs project management and coordination as part of the VIVOweb project at Indiana University. Coordinates the setup, operation, and promotion of a pilot instance of the VIVOweb researcher information system at IU. Manages communication with internal data providers and pilot departments, schools, and centers. Works with the Digital Library Project Programmer and other IU staff to develop requirements for data importing mechanisms and for the core VIVOweb software. Communicates requirements for the core software to VIVOweb development leads at Indiana University, Cornell University, and the University of Florida. Maintains communication between the IU implementation team and implementation teams at other VIVOweb participant institutions. Develops user and technical documentation and conduct user training.

1. Nine Software Design/Development/Usability Jobs at the VIVOweb Project at Cornell
2. Analyst/Programmer, Digital Library Tools at Indiana University
3. Systems Analyst/Programmer at Indiana University
4. Director for Digital Library Services at Indiana University
5. Digital Library Jobs: Programmer/Analyst, Variations Application Development at Indiana