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Tuesday, January 29, 2019
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Why It's So Hard to Get Mickey Mouse Into the Public Domain
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by George H. Pike
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The Walt Disney Co. has been heavily advertising the 90th birthday of Mickey Mouse since mid-2018. Well, happy birthday, Mickey! Mickey Mouse has a fair amount of significance in copyright law in that he sometimes gets the blame for the continuing extension of the terms of a copyright.
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The State of Ebooks in Academic Libraries
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by Brandi Scardilli
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In a Campus Technology article from Dec. 12, 2018, Dian Schaffhauser reports that according to statistics from the U.S. Department of Education, "library collections in higher education now contain more digital items than physical." Let's take a look at what academic library staffers have to say about the state of ebooks in their libraries today.
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Librarians and the Failing Knowledge Infrastructure (4:25)
New Librarianship Field Guide author R. David Lankes discusses the racism, classism, and economic disparities in American society that librarians both share responsibility for and can help address as key parts of the country's knowledge infrastructure in this clip from his keynote at Computers in Libraries Connect 2021.
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