Librarians

Fair use advocates worry that a new House bill could make it easier to bring criminal charges against librarians for copyright missteps.

Patron-Driven Acquisition model could provide major budget windfalls as libraries become more digital and data-driven.

Students might not be the "multitasking slackers" some believe them to be, according to a new study.

Faculty members say U. of San Diego layoffs of library workers whose jobs weren't digital fly in the face of the Catholic institution's social teachings.

Citing a need to save money and rethink information access, several liberal arts colleges have placed libraries and IT in the same administrative unit.

At Sustainable Scholarship conference, academic librarians and publishers discuss why understanding readers is more essential than ever in the digital age.

U. of Michigan Library admits to flaws in process for identifying copyright "orphans" in HathiTrust Digital Library, in setback for project aimed at increasing access to digitized texts.

A sharp split over digitized versions of "orphan works," as well as anger over Google's books project, led authors' group to sue major university libraries.