Category Archives: Lending Books

University of Alberta Opens Up Digital Access to Historic Curriculum Materials

Posted on September 24, 2019 by Lila Bailey

Anyone interested in learning about what was taught in Alberta schools in the past century used to go to the basement of the H. T. Coutts Education and Kinesiology and Physical Education Library at the University of Alberta. There, users … Continue reading →

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Giving New Life to Out-of-Print Books Through Controlled Digital Lending

Posted on September 19, 2019 by Lila Bailey

Dean Bartoli Smith’s book of poetry about growing up in Baltimore came out in 2000. American Boy was long past its sales life until it was resurrected by being digitized by the Internet Archive and made available through one-at-a-time digital … Continue reading →

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Boston Public Library Leads Once Again in Digital Lending

Posted on September 10, 2019 by Lila Bailey

By continuing to find new opportunities to make older books, often lost or just inaccessible to the public, available online, Boston Public Library is sparking new enthusiasm among the reading public. “It’s like a giant treasure hunt for book lovers … Continue reading →

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MIT Press Embraces New Access Models to Fulfill Mission

Posted on September 4, 2019 by Lila Bailey

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Press was the first university press to sign an agreement with the Internet Archive to scan older print books for which it had no digital copies to make them available for one-at-a-time lending, a … Continue reading →

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Protecting Books From Harm With Controlled Digital Lending

Posted on August 28, 2019 by Lila Bailey

Michelle Wu began working at the University of Houston Law Library in the wake of flooding from Tropical Storm Allison in 2001. Some parts of the city had 14 feet of water and the library took in at least 8 … Continue reading →

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Helping Libraries Transform their Physical Collections

Posted on August 20, 2019 by chrisfreeland

This is the first in a series of blog posts highlighting how libraries and publishers are addressing the challenges of providing digital access to materials in their print collections.  Using controlled digital lending, libraries and publishers have a new model … Continue reading →

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Librarians Share Benefits of Controlled Digital Lending

Posted on August 8, 2019 by Lila Bailey

This summer, representatives from the Internet Archive joined librarians and advocates in Washington D.C., to talk with  policymakers about how Controlled Digital Lending, or CDL, helps their communities. The resounding response from Congressional offices was that CDL “just makes sense” … Continue reading →

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Most 20th Century Books Unavailable to Internet Users – We Can Fix That

Posted on July 1, 2019 by Brewster Kahle

The books of the 20th century are largely not online.  They are mostly not available from even the biggest booksellers. And, libraries who have collected hard copies of these books have not been able to deliver them in a cost-efficient, … Continue reading →

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Wasted: A case study for controlled digital lending

Posted on November 13, 2018 by chrisfreeland

The recent nomination and appointment of Brett Kavanaugh to the U.S. Supreme Court offered a timely opportunity to demonstrate how controlled digital lending can be used by libraries to circulate digital copies of books that are out of print or … Continue reading →

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