In September, a federal appeals court dealt a major blow to the Internet Archive—one of the largest online repositories of free books, media, and software—in a copyright case with significant ...

Picture the following diverse scenarios: A librarian in Utah develops and shares a plugin for an open source repository system that is reused by libraries in three other states; a curator in New York ...

The outpouring of support for the UBP digitization project and the creation of the digital library has spurred other ...

“Schools and libraries in all forms are transitioning their spends from providing physical items that are being stored on shelves and branches to digital items -- the fastest portion of their growth,” ...

Contemporary research in the humanities has expanded beyond anything that could be considered traditional. Historians are building interactive digital maps, literary scholars are using computers to ...

The American Library Association released a report last week underlining the role of libraries in expanding digital equity throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The report, titled Keeping Communities ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna and two ...

Link: Openlibrary.org Project Gutenberg is a renowned digital library offering more than 75,000 eBooks accessible to readers worldwide. Focused on preserving classic literature and public-domain works ...

When Dianne Basso moved to Colorado in 2011 after years overseas, she couldn’t wait to get a library membership. A lifelong reader, Basso had been living in countries where English wasn’t the official ...