http://scienceblogs.com/retrospectacle/2007/04/when_fair_use_isnt_fair_1.php
http://www.boingboing.net/2007/04/26/wiley_threatens_scie.html

http://cerl.sub.uni-goettingen.de/ct/

The CERL Thesaurus contains names of persons, corporate bodies, places and printers/publishers recorded in books or other material printed during the hand-press era (1450 - ca. 1830). Authority files contributed by CERL member libraries and other libraries/projects concentrating on the history of the book are brought together and made searchable in one single system. The CERL Thesaurus currently comprises 652,052 records (last update: 13th April 2007).

On the personal names: The largest contribution is the German national authority file for personal name headings, the Personennamendatei (PND) of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek. The CERL Thesaurus contains those records that refer to persons who died before 1851; the records are regularly updated.

Mr. Isaac Stephens is a PhD candidate in early modern British History whose dissertation, "In the Shadow of the Patriarch: Elizabeth Isham and her World in Seventeenth-Century Northamptonshire", is a micro-history of a never-married woman named Elizabeth Isham. The foundation of the dissertation is a spiritual autobiography that Isham wrote circa 1640 which gives a rare and intimate look into the life of an early seventeenth-century gentlewoman. Recently, Mr. Stephens completed an annotated transcription of this autobiography:

http://www.history.ucr.edu/people/grad_students/stephens/TheAutobiography.pdf

The SILAS website www.irlandeses.org has been refurbished and includes new contents. In addition to the latest and previous issues of "Irish Migration Studies in Latin America", navigation is now easier and new pages have been added.

Among them, "The Diary of Roberto Murphy, 1887-1934" is now available to all visitors. The Diary is a scanned version of forty-seven annual volumes, including daily entries written by a landowner of Lobos, Buenos Aires province. Most of theses entries include five to ten hand-written lines recording ranch business, family news, visits, local affairs, travel reports and remarks about the weather, market prices, movements of neighbours or political upheavals. Cash accounts close every year, and miscellaneous materials like press clippings or notes are occasionally inserted with some entries. The digitisation and access system design were performed by Proyecto Patrimonio Historico, Instituto de Historia Argentina y Americana "Dr. Emilio Ravignani" (Facultad de Filosofia y Letras), and Laboratorio de Sistemas Distribuidos Heterogeneos (Facultad de Ingenieria), of the University of Buenos Aires.

http://www.irlandeses.org

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Sorry for the format. I have grabbed the code as recommended (but could'nt play it self from this entry ...)

wmv-Format see http://www.blip.tv/file/205570/

German version:
http://turi-2.blog.de/2007/04/25/p2161387

http://lauriethelibrarian.electrified.ca/?p=48



Why you’re crazy if you’re NOT submitting your LIS output to E-LIS

Benefits to using E-LIS over hosting it on your own server, website, etc.:

* The number one rule of data preservation is to store it in multiple locations, E-LIS is offering to do this for you for free. You can’t beat free!
* The server is in Italy. For non-European LIS professionals, that’s extreme disaster planning at its best!
* If you host your writings on your website, it’s very hard to track how many people are searching for your publications. E-LIS will keep track of the number of times people search for your document, for you.
* If you host your writings on your website, it’s very hard to know how many people have downloaded your work. E-LIS will keep track of the number of times your works are downloaded. I wish I had discovered E-LIS a long time ago just for this feature!
* Belonging to E-LIS means you are now part of an international community of LIS professionals. Instantly. For free. No association or conference is going to give you that… for free!
* You aren’t responsible for any webhosting duties, server maintenance, etc. The fine people at E-LIS take care of all of that. Just send them an email when you discover a problem and relax.
* Not sure if you’re capable of using the website? The E-LIS people made a tutorial for you to teach you. No more worries.
* Language isn’t an issue. Love the Europeans and their belief in the value of a multilingual world.
* Didn’t describe your conference presentation right during the submission process? No worries, the E-LIS volunteers for your geographical region will clean it up for you.
* They’re not snobs. Your presentation may not be conference worthy but the attendees of your Lunch and Learn liked it, so why not submit it?

Posted by Laurie on April 25th, 2007

Here is the download statistics of my "Oberschwäbische Adelsbibliotheken":
http://eprints.rclis.org/stat/6246.html

This are the contributions on the subject "Archives":
http://eprints.rclis.org/view/subjects/DL.html

http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v10n07a02.html
http://www.antiquetrader.com/default.aspx?tabid=1743&view=topic&forumid=114&postid=21466
http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/articles/mar07/copyright0307.htm

"On November 7, 2006, Heritage Auction Galleries, Inc. of Dallas filed
suit against Superior Galleries, Inc. of California, charging copyright
infringement, unfair competition, and that Superior had flat out stolen
its printed catalog descriptions relating to coins. Heritage claims that
Superior “has reproduced and distributed, and is continuing to reproduce and distribute, to the public, auction catalogs containing unauthorized copies and/or derivative works of the Copyrighted Works that were copied and/or derived from Heritage’s own catalogs and/or archives.”

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2062950,00.html

Appeal to preserve John Murray publisher's papers

[...] Until recently the archive of 150,000 documents was housed in unsuitable conditions at the publisher's office in Albemarle Street, London, an address that became almost as famous as some of its authors.

John Murray's story itself is as interesting as that of many of its writers. The publishing firm started in 1768 when a young Scottish naval officer, John MacMurray, left the service to become a bookseller. He dropped the 'Mac' and set up in Fleet Street, using his seaman's experience to secure contracts to ship books overseas. Murray died in 1793. In 1811 his son, John Murray II, was offered a manuscript by a certain George Gordon, Lord Byron. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage had been rejected by two rivals, but Murray took it - and the first edition sold out within days.

Last year the seventh John Murray offered the firm's entire collection of papers to the National Library of Scotland at the knockdown price of £33m. None of the money will go directly to the family, but will instead go towards education projects and making the archive available and accessible to the public. However, the last £5m of the asking price still needs to be raised and this week crime writer Ian Rankin will launch a fundraising campaign to keep the archive in the UK.

A spokesman for the NLS said: 'The John Murray Archive is an absolute treasure trove of knowledge, wisdom, gossip and ideas from across the 19th century. The range it covers - from literature to science through politics, travel and exploration - is remarkable. It really is a showcase for the ideas that changed the world.

'We are immensely proud that we have this in Scotland, but we just need to make sure that we keep it here.'

http://www.unicaen.fr/mrsh/crahm/revue/tabularia/print.php?dossier=dossier2&file=13lecouteux.xml

Sur la dispersion de la bibliothèque bénédictine de Fécamp
Partie 1 : identification des principales vagues de démembrement des fonds

On the dispersal of the Benedictine library at Fécamp
Part 1 : identifying the main stages of the collection carve-up

Stéphane LECOUTEUX

Abstract : As with many abbeys, La Trinité at Fécamp witnessed a significant carve-up of its books between the 16th and 18th centuries. Part of the loss has been thoroughly investigated – many books are to be found today in the Rouen and Le Havre municipal libraries, in the Archives départementales de la Seine-Maritime, in the Bibliothèque nationale de France and in the Fécamp museums. However less is known of other losses. This discussion focussing on medieval manuscripts in Latin points to the likely dissemination throughout Europe of membra disiecta and fragments inserted in inauthentic volumes, especially in the libraries at the Vatican, Bern, Leyden, Berlin and Paris. Other Norman abbeys, looted by the Huguenots in 1562 and 1563, went through a similar process of dispersal.



On the dispersal of the Fleury books see
http://archiv.twoday.net/stories/2799773/

http://noattention.blogspot.com/2007/04/open-letter-to-google-william-patry-and.html

"All I'm asking for is full access for the public to government documents on Google BookSearch. These documents are in the public domain and therefore should not be limited by claims of copyright, by Google or by the Library Partners."

On the international issue see
http://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2004/09/copyright_in_go.html

Google is blocking access of foreign users for books which are PD in the US but of which Google believes that they were not PD world-wide. Thus there is no reason to block US-access to US government documents.