Digital Rights Management
How E-Books are Changing the Digital Rights Landscape in Libraries
Part 4 - The Role of the Library in the Digital Age Terry Plum, Assistant Dean of Technology at the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science, has worked in academic libraries and...
How E-Books are Changing the Digital Rights Landscape in Libraries
Part 3 - Digital Rights Management Librarian educator Terry Plum, Assistant Dean of Technology at the Simmons Graduate School of Library and Information Science offers his sense of what issues...
How E-Books are Changing the Digital Rights Landscape in Libraries
Part 2 - Licensing Digital Content Librarians face a number of challenges when it comes to licensing digital content. In the second part of our interview, librarian educator Terry Plum, Assistant...
How E-Books are Changing the Digital Rights Landscape in Libraries
Part 1 - Fair Use and the First Sale Doctrine with Digital Content When it comes to digital rights, librarians can be awfully cranky—just look at the debate around HarperCollins ebooks. Librarian...
The Debate Around Ebooks and Libraries
As the popularity of ebooks rises, the tension between publishers and libraries has heated up. It’s a legitimate tension. After all, the library “is an organized collection of resources made...