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A precursor to CDL was the "Digitize and Lend" program begun in 2011 by the Open Library, a program of the Internet Archive.Also in 2011, the basic principles of CDL were articulated by Michelle M. Wu [1] in her paper Building a Collaborative Digital Collection: A Necessary Evolution in Libraries. [2]
Overdrive is the only eLending service that works with the Amazon Kindle, but that functionality is limited to U.S. library readers only. [3] E-book lending is different from physical book lending. Libraries have always been able to acquire and lend physical books without requiring any special permission from publishers.
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A federal court recently said the Internet Archive is not protected by fair use doctrine.
Prior to computerization, library tasks were performed manually and independently from one another. Selectors ordered materials with ordering slips, cataloguers manually catalogued sources and indexed them with the card catalog system (in which all bibliographic data was kept on a single index card), fines were collected by local bailiffs, and users signed books out manually, indicating their ...
Picking up books requested through interlibrary loan. Inter-library loan (abbreviated ILL, sometimes called document delivery, document supply, inter-lending, inter-library services, inter-loan, or resource sharing) is a service that enables patrons of one library to borrow materials that are held by another library.
Digital retailer Amazon.com (NAS: AMZN) continues to build out its Kindle e-reader platform with the introduction of the Kindle Owners' Lending Library, a service enabling its Amazon Prime members ...
Library circulation or library lending comprises the activities around the lending of library books and other material to users of a lending library. A circulation or lending department is one of the key departments of a library. The main public service point is the circulation desk or loans desk, usually found near the main entrance of a ...