Digitization

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  While Library Buildings Are Closed, Collaborative Digital Library Ensures Access to Books for Research, Study

  When the COVID-19 pandemic forced closures of college campuses this spring, faculty and students lost access to the printed books and journals in their libraries. Fortunately, a decade-long initiative by...

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  Digitization in an Emergency: Fair Use/Fair Dealing and How Libraries Are Adapting to the Pandemic

  Like every other major institution operating during the coronavirus pandemic, research libraries are confronting sudden and radical shifts in their daily realities. Foremost among these challenges is the near-total loss...

• Issue Brief: Metadata and Copyright—Should Institutions License Their Data about Scholarship?

  The Association of Research Libraries (ARL) is committed to promoting open scholarship, including making metadata—foundational information about scholarly works—as widely available as possible. Allowing the broadest access to and reuse...

• ARL Library Directors Advise on Digital Dunhuang Initiative

  Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member library directors Brian E. C. Schottlaender, UC San Diego, and Xuemao Wang, University of Cincinnati, were invited by the Dunhuang Research Academy of China...

• ARL Libraries Invited to Apply for Humanities Open Book Grants—Deadline September 13

  Last year, the US National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation partnered to create Humanities Open Book, a grant program that offers awards up to...

• Association Meeting 2016 (Spring): DPN Update

  Presented at the 168th Association Meeting, April 2016, in Vancouver, British Columbia by James Hilton. mm16sp_Hilton.pdf

• Planning a Digital Scholarship Center: A CNI-ARL Workshop

  An increasing number of institutions are planning programs and spaces they call digital scholarship centers, scholars’ labs, research commons, or similar names. Often these centers are located in and administered...

• Google Books Project Ruled Fair Use by US Appeals Court—ARL Releases Issue Brief

  The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unanimously ruled on Friday, October 16, 2015, in Authors Guild v. Google—also known as the “Google Books” case—that Google’s mass scanning...

• Issue Brief: Second Circuit Court of Appeals Affirms Fair Use in Google Books Case

  On October 16, 2015, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit unanimously affirmed the lower court's fair use decision in Author's Guild v. Google, also known as the...

• SPEC Kit 348: Rapid Fabrication/Makerspace Services (September 2015)

  This SPEC Kit explores current ARL member library engagement with 3-D printing, rapid fabrication and digitization technologies, and makerspaces. This study covers the types of services libraries offer, the location...

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