Daily Archives Sunday, July 2008

E-Books, DRM and Other Things That Suck

From the “no duh!” files, the Library of Congress has come out officially as saying that Digital Rights Management is a serious obstacle to archiving materials.But copyright law also hampers important work being done at places like the Library of Congress, and a major new report on the issue from the Library points out the […]

Let's say that…

…you volunteered to write a government brief about the value of libraries in your province.  What would you include?  What approach would you take?  In this hypothetical example, let's say the sucker volunteer already has a draft with some statistics and facts relevant to libraries, both in general (the one from the 2004 Florida study […]