With a free library card and the right app, you can check out e-books, audiobooks and more from your local branch. By J. D. Biersdorfer J.D. Biersdorfer is the author or co-author of eight books on ...

— -- Libraries nationwide are finding more ways to go mobile. After a tentative foray into digital lending on PCs and e-readers several years ago, public libraries are opening the next chapter ...

Libraries - havens of free informational resources like books and computer access - now are expanding their repertoire by lending out a few less traditional items. Some libraries now are working ...

A lot has changed over Cathleen Special’s 23 years at Otis Library in Norwich, from physical changes, to filling the role of a community center. “We’ve seen the library really evolve over those 23 ...

On March 20, after nearly three years of litigation, a lawsuit challenging the Internet Archive’s program to scan and lend library books under a legally untested protocol known as CDL (controlled ...

“Interlibrary loan exists because no library can own everything,” explains Jacob Long, Bryn Mawr’s interlibrary loan ...

The lawsuit against Controlled Digital Lending is about giving corporations—rather than readers, buyers, borrowers, or authors—control over content. Signage for Hachette Book Group is displayed at ...

A compilation of PW's coverage of Hachette v. Internet Archive, the closely watched copyright case over the scanning and lending of print library books, with the most ...