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March 19, 2009

In this Issue

Intentional Upheaval: ACRL Report Says Libraries Must Turn Crisis into Opportunity Unresolved: ACRL, “Debate” Over MLS Finds No Resolution At ACRL, One Librarian Looks to the Very, Very, Distant Future Sony, Google Strike Public Domain Deal; Oregon State, BCR Team Up to Offer Public Domain Monographs; Harvard in Deal with AquaBrowser; Serials Solution Announces New Beta Partners for Summons Register of Copyrights Not Asked By Congress to Weigh In Google Book Search?  Bestsellers in Fine Arts

• Intentional Upheaval: ACRL Report Says Libraries Must Turn Crisis into Opportunity
  Originally designed as an “environmental scan” to generate discussion at the ACRL 14^th National Conference, held March 12-15, in Seattle, WA, the report was instead released after the show, and reworked as a strategy guide "in the wake of dramatic economic developments."
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• Unresolved: ACRL, “Debate” Over MLS Finds No Resolution
  Is the MLS Degree a fundamental and beneficial credential, or an unnecessary anachronism not linked to library success? The debate goes on.
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• At ACRL, One Librarian Looks to the Very, Very, Distant Future
  In a talk that had Star Trek fans among the audience brimming with enthusiasm, Michael Ridley spoke of a “post-literate” future in which man and machine melded seamlessly together.
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• Sony, Google Strike Public Domain Deal; Oregon State, BCR Team Up to Offer Public Domain Monographs; Harvard in Deal with AquaBrowser; Serials Solution Announces New Beta Partners for Summons
  This week’s Library Journal Academic Newswire Marketplace Notes.
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• Register of Copyrights Not Asked By Congress to Weigh In Google Book Search? 
  At Columbia U. conference, Peters says Congress didn't ask for comment on the massive scan plan.
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• Bestsellers in Fine Arts
  June 2008 to date as identified by YBP Library Services.
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