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Update. "[University] #libraries across the country, from Carnegie Mellon…to the U of California system, turned to what’s known as [#ControlledDigitalLending, #CDL] in 2020, which gave students a way to borrow books that weren’t otherwise available. Those programs are small in scale and largely experimental but part of a broader shift in modernizing the university library. But the appeals court ruling could upend those programs."
insidehighered.com/news/tech-i…

#Academia
@academicchatter

#libraries #academia #cdl #controlleddigitallending @AcademicChatter group

Update. I recommend @mmasnick's good take on the ruling against the @internetarchive and #CDL.
techdirt.com/2024/09/05/second…

"What would you think if an author told you they would have written a book, but they wouldn’t bother because it would be available to be borrowed for free from a library? You’d probably think they were delusional. Yet that argument has now carried the day."

#Copyright #InternetArchive #Libraries

#copyright #libraries #internetarchive #cdl @Mike Masnick ✅ @internetarchive

Update. Here's the court opinion itself.
ww3.ca2.uscourts.gov/decisions…

Most notable to me:
* The court ruled against controlled digital lending (#CDL), not just the short-lived and less-controlled National Emergency Library (#NEL).
* The court found "market harm" to #publishers even tho pubs submitted no data on that harm.
* The court recognized the right of conventional lending by print #libraries but (IMHO) waffled when trying to square its rationale with that right.

#Copyright
@internetarchive

#copyright #libraries #cdl #publishers #nel @internetarchive

I just signed this petition from the #InternetArchive (@internetarchive) and hope you will too.
change.org/p/let-readers-read-…

Background from IA:
"We are disappointed in today’s opinion about the Internet Archive’s digital lending of books that are available electronically elsewhere. We are reviewing the court’s opinion and will continue to defend the rights of #libraries to own, lend, and preserve books."
blog.archive.org/2024/09/04/in…

#Books #CDL #Petitions #Publishers

#books #libraries #internetarchive #cdl #petitions #publishers @internetarchive

So OpenAI can use everything ever posted on the internet to train their AI, but Internet Archive can't scan and upload books for people to borrow?? Got it. 🙄

#InternetArchive #OpenAI #AI #internet #tech #books #publishing #libraries

#books #AI #tech #libraries #publishing #internetarchive #Internet #openai

#Quotes #Libraries #Ignorance #WakterCronkite

He'd be pissed that some libraries are being made to remove books.

One of my favorite quotes... - “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to a that of an ignorant nation.” --Walter Cronkite TheRetiredSchoolLibrarian.com
#libraries #quotes #ignorance #waktercronkite

"The majority of ALL book bans in the US were initiated by just 11 people…Book banning is NOT a movement…In most [states] it only takes a single complaint to have a strip a book from the library. Just one…Look at what is happening in St. James, FL where ONE person got twenty three books removed. Or in Clay County District schools where ONE person forced almost thirty books off shelves."
action.everylibrary.org/books_…

I just signed this petition and hope you will too.

#BookBans #Censorship #Libraries


Hundreds of books are usually banned by just ONE person in a community

It only takes a single complaint to strip a book from the library. Just one. That’s it.
EveryLibrary Action
#censorship #libraries #bookBans

“As librarians, we’re not here to judge, we’re here to help.”

#libraries, #care, #humanity, #HelpEachOther, #GoodNews, #ToughTopics

A library sign, giving a code for topics like LGBTQ or depression, so that visitors don’t need to ask for it
#libraries #humanity #goodnews #toughtopics #CARE #helpeachother

Defend our #libraries

(from @tomgauld)

@bookstodon

Cartoon: Methods of defending your local library from Government cuts (each with illustrative cartoon) Community support (demonstrators around the library) Fortifications (library surrounded by castle wall) Camoflage (self expanatory) Black magic (wizard & library painted with pentagram) Time travel (library back in world of dinosaurs) Disguise (library masquerading as Vape Shop) Attack (library with tank tracks moving towards the enemy)
#libraries @bookstodon group @Tom Gauld

This Martin Luther King Jr. day, I want to make a plug for the @internetarchive, They offer for free many of Dr. King's books, like Stride Toward Freedom: The Montgomery Story for free on their website.
archive.org/search?query=creat…
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#MLKday #DrMartinLutherKingJr #Books #Libraries #InternetArchive
Cover of Stride Toward Freedom on the left, and a portrait of Dr King on the right.

Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine

archive.org
#books #libraries #internetarchive #mlkday #drmartinlutherkingjr @internetarchive

I found some more traveling libraries! These are from the Finnish Seafarers' Union from the 1920s and are, I believe, to be brought aboard boats. From (yes I am at work today) Flickr Commons. #libraries #books #finland

flickr.com/photos/valokuvatait…

black and white photo of fifteen boxes with handles on the top of them. One in the front is open to reveal two shelves that have about thirty books stacked inside.

Leisure / Vapaa-aika - Kulutusosuuskuntien Keskusliitto

Images of urbanisation, industrialisation and the emergence of consumer culture and the welfare state – the familiar 20th century story of the upheavals of Finnish society. This time, however, the vantage point is that of the working class.
Flickr
#books #libraries #finland

These two paragraphs from Wil Wheaton's latest blog post really sum up how I feel about #BannedBooks and #libraries. It’s a lengthy post, but really quite worth the time.

wilwheaton.net/2023/03/the-lib…

Whenever someone tries to ban a book, they are telling on themselves. They are confessing that they are weak, afraid, and out of control. They are telling us that when we read these books, they will lose whatever control and authority they have. Authoritarians will try to control every aspect of your life, because they feel so out of control in theirs. Ask me how I know. So. Read banned books. Challenge book bans. Donate banned books. Take your kids to the library and encourage them to drink in as much knowledge, inspiration, and entertainment as possible. Support and reinforce their desire to learn and expand their world, because we’re all going to be old people in it, and I after the last few years of …. this …. I want that world to have more books and fewer Fascists in it.

“The library is a safe place.”

In order to survive, I disassociated for much of my childhood, but I clearly remember the books. That’s where I found comfort, companionship, inspiration and validation. It’s where the …
WIL WHEATON dot NET
#libraries #bannedbooks

Boosting this with alt-text because #librarians rule! 💪

I love the last panel. 😊

#Libraries #NoLimits #Books #Reading

Four three-panel comics together in one block. The comic is "Unshelved" by Gene Ambaum & Bill Barnes, the first scenes are all in front of a very large bookcase and the last have a plain background. The first series is a young black boy talking to a white male librarian: Boy: Can I check out this book? Librarian: Yes you can check out ANY book. B: ANY book? L: If you can reach it, you can check it out. B: What if I can't reach it? L: Then I'll do it for you. 2nd panel B: My teacher says I need to return this book. It's above my reading level. L: So? B: So I can't read it. L: Maybe you CAN. Maybe you can't. Maybe you can read part of it. Maybe you just want to look at the pictures. You can still keep it. B: Forever? L: No. B: Worth a shot. Third panel, now including a white teacher T: Did you tell this student he could check out this book? L: Yes. T: Are you aware that it's well above his reading level? L: Don't care. T: We have A POLICY! L: I love the sound policy makes when I break it. Fourth panel: T: I'm very disappointed you let kids check out just ANY book. L: Why, which books did you want to censor? T: What? No! I just want to make sure they read within their capabilities! L: And I want them to know they have no limits.
#books #libraries #reading #librarians #nolimits

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