University of Nebraska-Lincoln Profs Digitize Slave Filings & “Civil War Washington” Relaunches
From The Omaha World-Herald:
A group of University of Nebraska-Lincoln professors is archiving the 19th-century petitions that, as a result of legislation enacted 150 years ago Monday, allowed slave owners in Washington,...
U. of Wisconsin hooks up with Google library effort
"The University of Wisconsin-Madison and Google plan to provide access to hundreds of thousands of public and historical materials from the UW-Madison libraries and the Wisconsin Historical Society Library...." - CNET.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln Profs Digitize Slave Filings & “Civil War Washington” Relaunches
From The Omaha World-Herald:
A group of University of Nebraska-Lincoln professors is archiving the 19th-century petitions that, as a result of legislation enacted 150 years ago Monday, allowed slave owners in Washington,...
Way stupid suit over Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine
Details from CNet/NYT, Copyfight and N.J. Star-Ledger. (Thanks, Rochelle.)
So what will this mean for e-books and libraries–throughout the U.S.?
"The minority population in the Washington region will become the majority in well under a decade, a benchmark of the racial and ethnic change that is reconfiguring the area's political, economic...
Movie downloading starts from Denver library
Details via news releases. Related: Library will be the first in the nation to offer downloadable films, concerts, vidoes.
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
