The Internet Archive and Library Futures are jointly hosting a Community Update on Controlled Digital Lending (CDL). With the publishers and their lobbyists, backed by the megacorporate money and influence, doubling down on their insistence that any digital price and licensing terms are perfectly fair, hindering libraries' ability to build deep and lasting collections, CDL becomes a vital tool for libraries to fulfill our mission even as publishers use loopholes crated ty technology to create an imbalance in copyright. RF encourages exploration of this option.
From the hundreds of libraries using Controlled Digital Lending (CDL) to meet the needs of their communities to the many working groups and vendors investigating its potential, it's clear that this innovative library practice is on the rise.
Want to learn more about what's going on across the community? Join us for a public webinar to hear from active projects, followed by a Q&A. Whether you are new to Controlled Digital Lending or have already implemented it in your library, this session will give everyone an update on where the community is today & where it's going.
March 10 @ 11am PT / 2pm ET - Register now for the virtual event.
Library Futures celebrates its first year by releasing an annual report of its many important activities. RF encourages taking a look. Library Futures has accomplished much in a short time. RF is delighted to support their work.
We're thrilled to share our first Annual Report, an overview of our incredible year of growth and change at Library Futures. In only a short time, we've become one of the leading digital library policy and advocacy organizations and a crucial voice in the fight for balanced digital rights.
Read the report
Michael Blackwell
Director, St Mary's County Library
23630 Hayden Farm Lane
Leonardtown, MD 20650
301-475-2151 x5013
Cell phone: 301-904-3048
mblackwell@stmalib.org
