Research Libraries UK, which includes the Russell Group university libraries, as well as Britain’s national libraries and Trinity College Library Dublin, have told Elsevier and Wiley-Blackwell that they will not renew their current deals when they expire at the end of this year unless the concession is made.
British Library, Google Strike Deal To Digitize Historic Books
This is huge!
In a deal with the British Library, Google will digitize some 250,000 books that date between 1700 and 1800. The BBC reports the partnership will allow readers to “view, search and copy the out-of-copyright works at no charge on both the library and Google books websites.”
More than any other institution in my city the public library is the most effective melting pot of economic and social categories. The highly educated, the people who will eat supper at a soup kitchen, the recent immigrant — and everyone else, all of us — are here. And everyone seems to feel at home.
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On the Public Library | James Shelley
Via iainbroome, who says: “All reasons why communities across the UK are horrified about the goverment’s proposed plans to cut funding and close a great swathe of our public libraries.”
(via iainbroome)
Voices for the Library
Tomorrow is the big day, UK friends! Voices for the Library has a listing of all the events, plus more. It is wonderful to witness all this love for UK libraries.
Library protestors declare day of action | Books | guardian.co.uk
UK readers, please consider taking part this 5 February.
The battle of Britain's libraries | Books | The Guardian
Now I must work “palazzo of human thought” into every conversation I have.
