Licensing Digital Content: A Practical Guide for Librarians, 3rd edition

Harris, Lesley Ellen.  Licensing Digital Content: A Practical Guide for Librarians. 3rd edition. ALA Editions, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1630-8

Description
Covering the basics of digital licensing for librarians, the new third edition provides a freshened look at all the key issues as well as updated sample agreement clauses. Learn terminology, utilize the licensing checklist, and understand licensing issues through plain language explanations!

Table of Contents 
1 When to License
2 Demystifying the Licensing Experience
3 Learning the Lingo
4 Key Digital Licensing Clauses
5 Boilerplate Clauses
6 Un-Intimidating Negotiations
7 Questions and Answers on Licensing
8 Go License!

APPENDIXES

• A Fair Use–Section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Act
• B Interlibrary Loan–Section 108 of the U.S. Copyright Act
• C Digital Licensing Clauses Checklist

Complete Guide to Personal Digital Archiving

Marshall, Brianna H. Complete Guide to Personal Digital Archiving. ALA Editions, 2018. ISBN: 978-0-8389-1605-6

Description
Whether it’s a researcher needing to cull their most important email correspondence, or an empty-nester transferring home movies and photographs to more easily shared and mixed digital formats, this book will show you how to offer assistance by helping you break down archival concepts and best practices into teachable solutions for your patrons’ projects.

Table of Contents 

Part I        Learning about Personal Digital Archives Best Practices

Chapter 1    Archiving Digital Photographs, by Sarah Severson
Chapter 2    Archiving Social Media, by Melody Condron
Chapter 3    Archiving Web Content, by Cameron Cook
Chapter 4    Archiving Audiovisual Materials, by Yvonne Ng
Chapter 5    Assess, Annotate, Export: Quick Recipes for Archiving Your Personal Digital Life, by Jamie Wittenberg and Celia Emmelhainz

Part II        Personal Digital Archives and Public and Community Audiences

Chapter 6    The Washington, DC Public Library’s Memory Lab: A Case Study, by Jaime Mears
Chapter 7    Digitizing Memories and Teaching Information Literacy in Queens, NY, by Natalie Milbrodt and Maggie Schreiner
Chapter 8    Community-Based Digital Archiving: The Plateau Peoples’ Web Portal at Washington State University, by Lotus Norton-Wisla and Michael Wynne

Part III    Personal Digital Archives and Academic Audiences

Chapter 9    Personal Digital Archives Programming at Liberal Arts Colleges, by Amy Bocko, Joanna DiPasquale, Rachel Appel, and Sarah Walden McGowan
Chapter 10    Supporting Artists’ Personal Archives, by Colin Post
Chapter 11    Personal Digital Archiving as a Bridge to Research Data Management, by Sara Mannheimer and Ryer Banta

Part IV    Social and Ethical Implications of Personal Digital Archives

Chapter 12    Avoiding a Gambit for Our Personal Archives, by Matt Schultz
Chapter 13    Digital Photos, Embedded Metadata, and Personal Privacy, by Isaiah Beard
Chapter 14    Black Folk Magic: An Autoethnography of Digitally Archiving Black Millennialhood, by Camille Thomas
Chapter 15    Absent Others: Contemporary Mourning and Digital Estates, by Angela Galvan

Exploring Discovery

Exploring Discovery: The front door to your library's licensed and digitized content edited by Kenneth J. Varnum. American Library Association, 2016. 978-0-838-9-1414-4.

We’re in a new age of Discovery. Not of the physical world but rather one that serves up appropriate resources for your library’s researchers, thanks to advancements in handling metadata, natural language processing, and keyword searching. For you, Discovery might be shorthand for single-index products such as Serials’ Solutions Summon, EBSCO Discovery, and OCLC’s WorldCat Discovery. Yet even those tools require adjustments to meet your institution’s specific needs. With first-hand profiles of 19 library projects, Varnum and his roster of contributors offer guidance on the complete range of discovery services, from the broad sweep of vendors’ products to the fine points of specialized holdings. Topics include:

• migrating from a traditional ILS to a library services platform;
• creating a task list for usability testing of discovery;
• managing internal development requirements within the constraints of a small or mid-sized library;
• applying agile software methodology to a Blacklight implementation;
• real-world examples of usability testing, including a small liberal arts college’s implementation of VuFind;
• meeting the challenge of three different metadata formats;
• practices in the Primo community for integrating open access content into the front end;
• serving mobile users with an app and responsive Web design;
• analyzing the use of facets in search;
• using a single discovery tool across a library, museum, and archive; and
• implementing discovery with geospatial datasets.

Easy to dip into as needed, this comprehensive examination of discovery services will prove invaluable to IT, web development, electronic resource management, and technical services staff.

Visit the publisher's web page for the table of contents and more.

Digital Content Creation in Schools: A Common Core Approach

Ivers, K. S., & Barron, A. E. (2015). Digital Content Creation in Schools: A Common Core Approach. Santa Barbara, CA: Libraries Unlimited. ISBN: 978-1-61069-629-6

Publisher's Description
...Digital content creation supports the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) and 21st-century learning skills by helping students use their knowledge to analyze, create, solve problems, communicate, collaborate, and innovate. This update of the popular Multimedia Projects in Education, Fourth Edition emphasizes digital content creation and the use of the CCSS as benchmarks to help you create cutting-edge classroom instruction.

The book begins by presenting research on student learning through multimedia and digital content creation. This introduction is followed by outlines of each stage of the practical, easy-to-use Decide, Design, Develop, and Evaluate (DDD-E) model, which is designed specifically for classroom use. Content also includes discussion of multiple intelligences, constructivist learning, and cooperative grouping; blackline masters to guide you and your students through the DDD-E process; and assessment and management strategies. In addition, you'll find sample activities using an array of development tools, information on mobile and web apps, and numerous other resources to support digital projects in your classroom. The book, which is most applicable to students in grades 4 through 12, will also serve as an ideal resource for media specialists who work with teachers and students. 

Features

• Uses a Common Core approach, focusing on creativity and innovation, critical thinking and problem solving, and communication and collaboration

• Details how to use the Decide, Design, Develop, and Evaluate (DDD-E) model, a process designed for the classroom

• Provides blackline masters to assist you with every phase of the DDD-E model, including management and formative assessment

• Includes sample activities and reproducible handouts and worksheets

• Offers information on a wide range of resources, including free mobile and web apps for creating digital projects

Table of Contents
Preface
Chapter 1: The Impact of Multimedia and Digital Content Creation on Student Learning
Chapter 2: A Model for the Design and Development of Digital Content Creation
Chapter 3: Decide
Chapter 4: Design
Chapter 5: Developing Media Elements
Chapter 6: Develop: Digital Content Creation Tools
Chapter 7: Evaluate
Chapter 8: Digital Content Creation Projects: Presentation Tools
Chapter 9: Digital Content Creation Projects: Hypermedia
Chapter 10: Digital Content Creation Projects: Web Pages
Chapter 11: Digital Content Creation Projects: Video
Chapter 12: Digital Content Creation Projects: eBooks
Glossary
Index

Preserving our Heritage: Perspectives from Antiquity to the Digital Age

   

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Cloonan, Michele Valerie. Preserving our Heritage: Perspectives from Antiquity to the Digital Age. Chicago: ALA, 2015  025.84 Presel4  ISBN 978-155570937

Drawing on historical texts, this accessible volume provides a broad understanding of preservation for librarians, archivists, and museum specialists. Cloonan offers students and professionals an overview of longevity, reversibility, enduring value, and authenticity of information preservation. Each section includes historical works that form the basis of contemporary thinking and practices, readings from a variety of fields that are primarily concerned with the preservation of cultural heritage, and hard to find publications that shed new light on how to approach contemporary problems. The author's selections and insightful commentary on each comprise a truly global and current view of preservation.

 

Copyright & Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums

Hirtle, Peter B., Emily Hudson, Andrew T. Kenyon. Copyright & Cultural Institutions: Guidelines for Digitization for U.S. Libraries, Archives, and Museums.  Ithica, NY: Cornell University Library, 2009.

The development of new digital technologies has led to fundamental changes in the ways that cultural institutions fulfill their public missions of access, preservation, research, and education. Many institutions are developing publicly-accessible websites in which users can visit online exhibitions, search collection databases, access images of collection items, and in some cases create their own digital content. Digitization, however, also raises the possibility of copyright infringement. It is imperative, therefore, that staff in libraries, archives, and museums have a good understanding of fundamental copyright principles and how institutional procedures can be affected by the law. Copyright and Cultural Institutions was written to assist understanding and compliance with copyright law. It discusses the basics of copyright law and the exclusive rights of the copyright owner, the major exemptions used by cultural heritage institutions, and stresses the importance of "risk assessment" when conducting any digitization project. Two cases studies (on digitizing oral histories and student work) are also included.

Law Librarianship in the Digital Age

Kroski, Ellyssa (ed.) Law Librarianship in the Digital Age. Scarecrow Press, 2014. ISBN: 978-0-8108-8806-7

Description
This book covers developments that face today’s modern law libraries, including e-Books, mobile device management, Web scale discovery, cloud computing, social software, and more. These critical issues and concepts are approached from the perspective of tech-savvy library leaders who each discuss how forward-thinking libraries are tackling such traditional library practices as reference, collection development, technical services, and administration in this new “digital age.”

Each chapter explores the key concepts and issues that are currently being discussed at major law library conferences and events today and looks ahead to what’s on the horizon for law libraries in the future.

Table of Contents
Part I. Major Introductory Concepts
1 Law Librarianship 2.0 - Jennifer Wertkin
2. Embedded Librarianship - Thomas J. Striepe and Mary Talley
3. Copyright in the Digital Age - Kyle K. Courtney
4. Open Access to Legal Scholarship - Cheryl Kelly Fischer and Vicki Steiner
5. User Services Analysis for Decision Making - Kim Clarke
6. Law Library Management - Camille Broussard, Ralph Monaco, and Gitelle Seer

Part II. Technologies
7. Digitization - Michelle M. Wu
8. E-books in Law Libraries - Ellyssa Kroski
9. Tablets and Mobile Device Management - William R. Mills
10. The Law Library Website - Andrew Plumb-Larrick
11. Web-Scale Discovery and Federated Search - Valeri Craigle
12. The Cloud - Roger Vicarius Skalbeck
13. Social Software - Marcia L. Dority Baker

Part III. Reference Services
14. Reference Services in a Law Library - Carol A. Watson
15. Introduction to Legal Research - Rhea Ballard-Thrower
16. Online Information Sources - Sarah K. C. Mauldin
17. Major Legal Databases and How to Search Them - Theodora Belniak

Part IV. Instruction
18. Library Instruction in the Information Age - Emily Janoski-Haehlen
19. Educational Technologies - Kim Clarke and Nadine R. Hoffman

Part V. Technical Services
20. Technical Services 2.0 - Edward T. Hart
21. Collection Development - Molly (Mary) E. Brownfield
22. Electronic Resources Management and User Authentication - Catherine M. Monte

Part VI. Knowledge Management
23. Knowledge Management - Steven A. Lastres and Don MacLeod
24. The Law Library Intranet - Emily R. Florio and Michael J. Robak

Part VII. Marketing
25. Digital Age Marketing - Carol Ottolenghi
26. Competitive Intelligence - Jennifer Alexander and M. T. Hennessey

Part VIII. Professional Development and the Future
27. Professional Development - Holly M. Riccio
28. The Future of Law Librarianship - Scott D. Bailey and Julie Graves Krishnaswami

Ebooks and the School Library Program

Leverkus, Cathy, and Shannon Acedo. Ebooks and the School Library Program: A Practical Guide for the School Librarian. Chicago: American Association of School Librarians, 2013.
ISBN: 978-0-8389-8672-1

Publisher's Description

Whether you have an interest in starting an ebook collection for your school library program or are working on enhancing an ebook collection you’ve already established, this handbook is for you. The world of ebooks is both vast and intricate. Exploring the many articles concerning ebook publication, vendors, devices, and copyright laws can be overwhelming. The writers of Ebooks and the School Library Program have organized their learning to share with their peers from several years of building ebook collections for their individual school library programs. This guide will help familiarize school librarians with ebooks and facilitate decision-making about their ebook collections in a rapidly changing landscape.

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

Chapter 1: What is an Ebook?

Chapter 2: Sources of Ebooks

Chapter 3: Why Purchase Ebooks?

Chapter 4: Ebooks and Self-Publishing

Chapter 5: Ebook Devices

Chapter 6: Device Distribution and Technological Factors

Chapter 7: Ebook Circulation/Access

Chapter 8: Developing an Ebook Collection

Chapter 9: Ebook Acquisition

Chapter 10: One-Time ‘Purchase’ or Annual Subscription?

Chapter 11: Cataloging Ebooks

Chapter 12: Budgetary Factors

Chapter 13: Librarian Support Groups—Learning From Peers

Chapter 14: Legal and Ethical Considerations

Chapter 15: Fast-Changing Landscape

Chapter 16: Musings: Larger Philosophical Questions, Future Challenges, Concerns, and Developments

Chapter 17: Conclusion

WORKS CITED

Appendix A: Resources

Appendix B: Publications from AASL

Appendix C: AASL Position Statement on Digital Content and E-books in School Library Collections

Appendix D: Glossary

Appendix E: Index

Appendix F: Tables & Figures

Practical Digital Preservation: A How-to Guide for Organizations of Any Size

Brown, Adrian. Practical Digital Preservation: A How-to Guide for Organizations of Any Size. Chicago: Neal-Schuman, 2013.  025.84 Brown.   ISBN978-7-55570-942-6

As digital preservation becomes an increasingly widespread and accessible practice, smaller organizations can take steps towards developing strategies for implementing it in their own institutions. This straightforward guide offers clear methods and tools for beginning the process. Readers will learn about the arguments for digital preservation, requirements, models for implementing a digital preservation service, and selecting and acquiring digital content. Anyone involved in digital preservation in medium- or smaller-sized information organizations, as well as students and others looking to gain a better understanding of the process, will find invaluable information in this practical guide.