Content tagged elending

Alongside growing concern in the United States and Canada about the conditions imposed on libraries looking to lend eBooks, there are also efforts to reduce dependency on third party distributors...

News - 16 July 2019

Tags: Access to information, Ebooks, elending, eLending for Libraries, United States, Interview, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

E-Reolen – the Danish, national e-lending platform - Nordic library meeting in Copenhagen Ppt with information on the business model, lending models, prices, numbers, among other...

Informational Page - 4 February 2019

Tags: Ebooks, elending

Digital Publishers Find Shared Purpose at W3C Publishing Summit – 13.11.2017 The article comments on the discussions that took place during the World Wide Web Consortium’s (W3C...

Informational Page - 4 February 2019

Tags: Ebooks, elending

With the Court of Justice of the European Union’s eBook judgement, it is a good time for a round up of eBook and eLending news. The below also contains updates on the Simon and...

Informational Page - 17 November 2016

Tags: Ebooks, elending

Here's a few stories relating to e-books and lending that may be of interest. An American Libraries Magazine piece on e-Books, reporting from a PLA session on the subject. This notes...

Informational Page - 2 August 2016

Tags: Advocacy, Ebooks, elending

You may be interested in a series of recent stories on eBooks and eLending, if you haven’t yet come across them already. There's a couple of Dutch controversies going on, a discussion on...

Informational Page - 2 August 2016

Tags: Advocacy, Ebooks, elending

The main eLending news is of course the Opinion from the Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the European Union that e-Lending (under a one copy one user) should be covered by the Rental...

Informational Page - 2 August 2016

Tags: Advocacy, Ebooks, elending

A short eLending and eBooks update from the last few weeks, ahead of WLIC. This includes a couple of stories about preparations in the Netherlands for the upcoming CJEU judgement on eLending, as...

Informational Page - 1 August 2016

Tags: Ebooks, elending

This page contains eLending and eBook updates as sent out on the eLending mailing list. The most recent update is also posted on this main page. February 2018 December 2017...

Informational Page - 1 August 2016

Tags: Advocacy, elending, eLending for Libraries

With eBooks becoming an ever more normal way of reading, it is high time that the law caught up with reality. Yet libraries frequently struggle to obtain the eBooks their users want. And...

News - 16 June 2016

Tags: Ebooks, elending, Public Libraries, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)

eReolen is a public library e-Book service in Denmark.  As of 2014 all libraries in Denmark offer access to eReolen and all publishers have been welcomed to participate as suppliers....

Event - 18 November 2014

Tags: Access to information, Access to knowledge, Conference, Denmark, elending, IFLA Trend Report

Introduction The International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) released the eLending Background Paper in 2012 followed by a commissioned think piece and the...

Publication - 30 July 2014

Tags: Ebooks, elending, eLending for Libraries, Publications

  The eLending environment for libraries around the world continues to change at a rapid pace. In 2012, IFLA released its Background Paper on eLending, which formed the basis for the...

News - 30 July 2014

Tags: elending

5 March 2014 In September 2013, the European Parliament recognised the need to reform EU copyright rules within its European Parliamentary resolution on “Promoting the European...

Publication - 12 March 2014

Tags: Copyright, data mining, elending, Internet intermediary responsibilities, Linking and browsing, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters), Statements

IFLA is pleased to launch a new set of resources relating to eBooks and libraries. Providing access to eBooks is one of the most pressing issues facing libraries right now. Public libraries, in...

News - 8 February 2013

Tags: elending

Libraries have been providing access to digital content to their users for over two decades. Until recently this content largely comprised access to aggregated databases of journals, newspapers,...

IFLA Group or Activity - 8 February 2013

Tags: +Main IFLA topics, Advocacy, elending

An IFLA-MLAS seminar on the challenges in front of us - in partnership with CILIP 21 February 2013 —  CILIP, London, United Kingdom The transformation of the media...

News - 16 January 2013

Tags: CILIP, E-Books, elending, Management of Library Associations

[PDF] | [MS Word] The transformation of the media market and the emergence of eBooks is causing great changes to library models worldwide. The answers we find to the challenges emerging,...

Event - 14 January 2013

Tags: CILIP, E-Books, elending, Meeting, United Kingdom, Management of Library Associations

On November 26-28 2012 IFLA hosted an expert meeting on the subject of e-Lending in libraries. More than twenty library professionals, technology experts and publishing consultants met in The...

News - 19 December 2012

Tags: elending, CLM (Committee on Copyright and other Legal Matters)