Future of Libraries – Need First Sale for ebooks

Fairly Used 2017-10-06

Summary:

How will libraries hold onto ebooks and other digital files like mp3s so that readers and scholars in the future can still read them?  The current state of affairs relies on license agreements with publishers who in turn license to vendors, who in turn, license to libraries.  Hardly sustainable when files can and do disappear […]

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Authors:

Mary Minow

Date tagged:

10/06/2017, 08:59

Date published:

02/19/2017, 16:02