Tell congress to let libraries fight back
Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2025 8:49 am
This is particularly important . With the books that we own physically, because learners now need them digitally.This lawsuit is . Already having a chilling impact on the digital fall semester we’re about to embark on. . The stakes are high for so many students who will be forced to learn at . Home via the internet or not learn at all. Librarians, publishers, authors—all of us—should be . Working together during this pandemic to help teachers, parents and especially the students.
I call on . The executives at hachette, harpercollins, wiley, and penguin random house to come together with us . To help solve the pressing challenges to access to knowledge during this pandemic. Please drop . This needless lawsuit. –brewster kahle, july 22, 2020posted in announcements, news | tagged cdl, controlled . Digital lending, covid-19, libraries, national emergency library, nel, publishers | 63 repliesmajor public interest group . Launches campaign to let libraries fight backposted on july 21, 2020 by wendy hanamurathis month, .
Public knowledge, a major public interest group europe cell phone number list promoting an open internet, launched a new campaign: . . Fight back against what? You may be wondering. . Put simply, the campaign asks congress to clarify libraries’ right to buy and lend books . Today as they have done for centuries.Today, amidst a skyrocketing demand for digital books, many . Books are not available on digital shelves at any price because there are no commercially .
Available digital versions of older titles. This gap limits how libraries can serve their patrons.“many . Libraries are currently closed, and sadly it looks like they may be for months to . Come,” said john bergmayer, legal director of public knowledge. “we need to make sure that . Libraries can continue serving their communities, not just during the pandemic, but after, as tightened . Budgets put the squeeze on library services and limit the scope of their collections.
I call on . The executives at hachette, harpercollins, wiley, and penguin random house to come together with us . To help solve the pressing challenges to access to knowledge during this pandemic. Please drop . This needless lawsuit. –brewster kahle, july 22, 2020posted in announcements, news | tagged cdl, controlled . Digital lending, covid-19, libraries, national emergency library, nel, publishers | 63 repliesmajor public interest group . Launches campaign to let libraries fight backposted on july 21, 2020 by wendy hanamurathis month, .
Public knowledge, a major public interest group europe cell phone number list promoting an open internet, launched a new campaign: . . Fight back against what? You may be wondering. . Put simply, the campaign asks congress to clarify libraries’ right to buy and lend books . Today as they have done for centuries.Today, amidst a skyrocketing demand for digital books, many . Books are not available on digital shelves at any price because there are no commercially .
Available digital versions of older titles. This gap limits how libraries can serve their patrons.“many . Libraries are currently closed, and sadly it looks like they may be for months to . Come,” said john bergmayer, legal director of public knowledge. “we need to make sure that . Libraries can continue serving their communities, not just during the pandemic, but after, as tightened . Budgets put the squeeze on library services and limit the scope of their collections.