Free Our Libraries, Cry University Presidents: Presidents of major universities want more library materials distributed online, without prohibitive charges.
At the Universal Access Digital Library Summit, held on September 24 and 25 at the Boston Public Library, Mark Huddleston, president of the University of New Hampshire, Peter Nicholls, provost of the University of Connecticut, and Jack Wilson, president of the University of Massachusetts, called for new approaches to the digitization of library collections that will allow access for all. The presidents urged libraries to halt what they described as an assault on the public’s right to knowledge, done in the name of copyright.
Citing Boston Public Library catalog links
Citing Boston Public Library catalog links.
We need to make it easier to cite a particular BPL catalog URL uniform
resource locator link for a book title. At our BPL it’s problematical
citing the URL for a catalog entry at http://bpl.org
Compatibility of BPL resources for all BPLusers.
Compatibility with other operating systems needs to be a greater
priority for audiobooks and other ebook BPL resources. At our Boston
Public Library other operating systems’ users are a bit sidelined
because of lack in the usability of overdrive at
http://overdrive.bpl.org
Alternative resources listings for all BPLusers.
Point of use at http://overdrive.bpl.org needs listings of any
alternative resources to the BPL overdrive ebooks, audiobooks, etc.
that BPLusers of other operating systems can try.
Relinquishing control. Ethics and BPLusers computers.
It appears that in using http://overdrive.bpl.org BPLusers relinquish control of their own computers to the player software with embedded code and all the code that’s embedded isn’t explained clearly.
Ethics have been compromised at our Boston Public Library
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