Cites & Insights 12:5 (June 2012) available

[Walt Crawford]

Cites & Insights 12:5 (June 2012) is now available for downloading at
http://citesnadinsights.info/civ12i5.pdf

A single-column 6x9 version, suitable for ereaders, is available at
http://citesandinsights.info/civ12i5on.pdf

The 24-page issue (43 pages in the single-column version) is PDF as
usual. The individual essays are also available in HTML form at
http://citesandinsights.info.

This issue includes:

The Front (pp. 1-4)

    Announcing Give Us a Dollar and We'll Give You Back Four, a study
of public library benefits and funding designed to help libraries see
where they stand and work to improve funding.

    Also noting "the books your library needs"--two recent books
published by professional library-oriented publishers that I believe
are essential for, respectively, every academic and most special (and
some public) library and every public and some academic and special
libraries.

The Middle: Forecasts (pp. 4-12)

    Following up the May essay on futurism with a whole bunch of
specific forecasts--the one-year kind that can be tested and usually
found wanting.

Policy: Copyright: Fair Use, Part 1 (pp. 12-24)

    Two discussions of fair use in action (or, rather, in court).
First, the concluding steps in a farce that has effectively broadened
fair use and the recognition that it's not a defense, it's the law.
Second, earlier steps in a situation more directly relevant to
academic libraries, the Georgia State lawsuit--but not the outcome
(for now, I stop at the point that the judge issued a decision).

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2012-06-07