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Information Today May 27, 2010	New York Public Library Partners With HathiTrust NYPL is the 27th library to join the partnership, which was formed in 2008.
Information Today August 29, 2011	University of California Libraries Expand Access to Orphan Works They will join the University of Michigan, University of Wisconsin, and University of Florida in a groundbreaking initiative to identify and make available digital versions of orphan works within the holdings of the HathiTrust Digital Library.
Information Today October 23, 2008 Beth Ashmore	HathiTrust: A Digital Repository for Libraries, by Libraries Long-term preservation is something libraries need, and it has been one of the concerns about Google as a digitization partner. These resources need to be, in the long term, managed by libraries.
Information Today June 27, 2011 Barbara Quint	The British Library Joins Google Books Google Books continues its march through the national libraries of Europe with the announcement of a deal with the British Library.
Information Today October 22, 2009 Barbara Quint	HathiTrust Launching Full-Text Library of Books By mid-November, the HathiTrust Digital Library will have a full-featured, full-text search service for 4.3-5 million items.
Information Today May 13, 2010	H.W. Wilson Retrospective Literature Databases Link to Full Text Books on HathiTrust HathiTrust is an inter-institutional repository of digitized books-more than 4.6 million volumes at present, about 15 percent of which are public domain works.
Information Today May 24, 2010	World's Largest Oceanography Library Goes Digital Approximately 100,000 volumes from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography Library, the world's largest oceanography library, have been digitized and are being made publicly accessible as part of a partnership between Google, the University of California and the UC San Diego Libraries.
Searcher April 2007 Grogg & Ashmore	Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project.
InternetNews November 7, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft to Scan Brit Books Scanning the collection of the prestigious British Library is a big job - and Microsoft wants to do it.
D-Lib August 2007 Bonita Wilson	Book Digitization Options for Libraries Online bookseller Amazon plans to digitize thousands of books through agreements with university and public libraries. Amazon plans to sell hard copies of the digitized books on a print-on-demand basis.
Information Today May 12, 2015	HathiTrust Premieres New Dataset The HathiTrust Research Center released the HTRC Extracted Features Dataset, which was sourced from 4.8 million public domain volumes from the HathiTrust Digital Library collection.
D-Lib May/Jun 2010 Xihui Zhen	Overview of Digital Library Development in China The greatest challenges for Chinese national digital library projects are digital resource construction and a design of services provision.
Information Today February 7, 2013 Barbara Quint	Reveal Digital Looks to Digitize Special Collections A new company, Reveal Digital, offers a service to libraries under a new cost-recovery revenue model aimed at permanent archiving and open access.
D-Lib September 2005 Lavoie et al.	Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries As mass digitization programs become more common, many are likely to originate within the library community itself, rather than through external organizations like Google.
Search Engine Watch November 22, 2005 Sullivan & Price	World Digital Library Project Announced, Backed by Library of Congress & Google The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library, a project that's also received its first $3 million in funding from Google.
Search Engine Watch December 14, 2004 Gary Price	Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries Google is working closely with five new content partners on a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google Print database.
InternetNews November 3, 2005 Tim Gray	Google Opens Library Doors to the World The first large scale collection of public domain books went live online today as part of search giant Google's plan to amass the world of letters on the Internet.
Information Today February 5, 2009	Cornell University Library Expands POD on Amazon Expanding an ongoing partnership with Amazon.com, Cornell University Library is increasing its print-on-demand (POD) offerings to more than 80,000 titles.
Information Today June 6, 2011 Barbara Quint	University of Michigan Libraries Target HathiTrust's Orphan Works Orphan works have been a thorn in the side of librarians, particularly academic librarians, forever. Orphans are in-copyright works for which current copyright holders are difficult or impossible to locate or perhaps even identify.
D-Lib Nov/Dec 2010	D-Lib Magazine In Brief and In the News Linked Data for Climate Research... Project Cumulus - Getting Services from the Cloud... SURFACE Launch... etc.
Information Today July 23, 2015	Innovative Publishes Report on Libraries and the Web Innovative released a survey report of 4,000-plus academic library users in the U.K.
Information Today November 2000	Libraries Receive Grants to Digitize Resources The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), the federal agency that lends support to the nation's museums and libraries, has announced the recipients of its Library Preservation and Digitization Grants...
Information Today December 20, 2004 Barbara Quint	Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries?
Information Today June 27, 2011 Barbie E. Keiser	EPA Releases Its National Library Network Strategic Plan FY2012-2014 This is a 3-year strategic plan which addresses four key areas -- EPA library network governance, services, collections (electronic and physical), and communications outreach and training.
D-Lib June 2008	A New Website Devoted to Envisioning the Future of Libraries In an information world in which Google apparently offers us everything, what place is there for the traditional, and even the digital, library?
Information Today February 5, 2009 Barbara Quint	OCLC and Open Access: Riding to the Rescue or Rustling the Herd? OCLC has announced a partnership that would ultimately transfer an open access icon, the University of Michigan Library's OAIster service, to OCLC.
Information Today December 27, 2004 Barbara Quint	Google's Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions Librarians, academicians, journalists, information industry pundits, and real people continue to ring in with comments, concerns, quarrels, and commendations for Google's new library program. Here are some answers, too.
Information Today September 4, 2014	WorldCat Adds Holdings From China The Shanghai Library contributed 2 million holdings to WorldCat -- including about 770,000 unique bibliographic records -- making the library's collection available worldwide.
Information Today October 30, 2014	ARL Produces Statistics Publications The Association of Research Libraries rolled out three publications that describe library statistics.
Information Today March 17, 2015	DPLA Moves Forward With Public Library Partnership Project The Minnesota Digital Library received a grant -- as one of the Digital Public Library of America's four service hubs to get an award -- to work on the Public Library Partnership Project
Information Today February 7, 2008	Columbia University Collaborates With Microsoft on Digitization Project Columbia University and Microsoft are collaborating on an initiative to digitize a large number of books from Columbia University Libraries and to make them available to internet users.
InternetNews November 22, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Google Gift to Help Digitize World The search giant donates $3 million to the Library of Congress to jumpstart the World Digital Library. Google would not be an exclusive vendor for that scanning project, and the resulting database would be open to indexing by other search engines.
Searcher January 2008 Ashmore & Grogg	The Race to the Shelf Continues Internet giants are in the middle of a modern-day space race: Who can scan the most and the best books in alliance with the biggest and brightest libraries in the U.S.
Information Today January 16, 2014	ProQuest Enhances Multimedia Discovery ProQuest's new Video Preservation and Discovery Service is designed to make it easier for university library patrons to find and access an institution's multimedia collections.
Information Today May 22, 2008 Barbara Quint	OCLC Tightens Links to Google Book Search This week, OCLC signed an agreement confirming and increasing the links between OCLC's WorldCat.org free web service and Google Book Search.
Information Today October 31, 2013	LPC Debuts Library Publishing Directory The Library Publishing Coalition published the first edition of its Library Publishing Directory, which provides an overview of the publishing activities of 115 academic and research libraries.
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Chris Thompson	Harvard's Alternative to Google Books Universities launch a digital public library which will archive every book in the public domain and offer them online to anyone. The library's prototype is expected to launch this year.
Information Today July 28, 2011	Wellcome Library Partners With ProQuest to Digitize Early European Books The collection will be made available through ProQuest's new Early European Books database, a sister project to the Early English Books Online.
Information Today August 14, 2006 Barbara Quint	Google Book Search Adds Big, Brave Partner: The University of California The 100 libraries on the 10 campuses of the University of California - the largest research and academic library in the world - opened a composite 34 million book collection to Google.
Information Today June 28, 2012 Katherine Allen	New European Library Portal Launched The European Library is a new discovery service that provides access to the collections of the national libraries of 46 European countries, plus a growing number of research libraries.
Information Today October 18, 2010	Full-Text Doctoral Dissertations on Middle East and Islamic Studies Available Free The British Library's partnership project with the Chicago-based Center for Research Libraries has now released digitized copies of 400 U.K. Ph.D. theses on Middle Eastern and Islamic studies.
Information Today August 19, 2010	EOS International Enters Digital Library Market The application and digital content may be stored on a local network server or accessed remotely from one of the company's global data centers.
Information Today November 28, 2005 Barbara Quint	Library of Congress Launches Global "Rare Book" Digitization Project with Google Donation The Library of Congress' emerging "megalibrary" is getting a virtual "rare books" room thanks to Google.
Information Today May 28, 2002 Barbara Quint	OCLC, Olive Software Ally to Digitize Library Newspaper Archives OCLC Digital and Preservation Resources has signed an agreement with Olive Software to supply libraries with the tools to digitize historical newspaper archives.
D-Lib April 2006 Bonita Wilson	Change and the Need for Innovation Numerous challenges face libraries and other information organizations in this time of rapid change in both technology and culture.
Information Today June 18, 2007 Barbara Quint	Google Book Search Has a Busy Week In the first week of June, Google Book Search adds a 12-university consortium, and deals with stolen laptops and competitors.
Information Today December 3, 2013 Brandi Scardilli	HathiTrust Doesn't Monkey Around With Metadata Management HathiTrust recently launched Zephir, its new system for managing bibliographic metadata.
Information Today December 20, 2012	OhioLINK Chooses EBSCO to Provide Discovery Layer The Ohio Library and Information Network and its Library Advisory Council selected EBSCO Publishing to provide EBSCO Discovery Service as a shared service to OhioLINK libraries.
D-Lib February 2001 Manfred Thaller	From the Digitized to the Digital Library Many, if not most, digitization projects have aimed at existing collections as individual servers. A digital library, however, should be more than a digitized one...