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New White Paper Reveals Complex Dynamic Between Ebook Publishers And Platforms
Sarah Lamdan, Jason M. Schultz, Michael Weinberg, and Claire Woodcock
CDL simply seeks to preserve the library’s long-established and vital mission to collect and lend books in an increasingly licensed-access digital world.
Kyle Courtney
Co-author of the White Paper on Controlled Digital Lending of Library Books (with David Hansen)
As our joint brief notes, internet access is essential to participation in economic, cultural, and social activity.
With broad availability of digital content, libraries and consumers should have more rights and access, but in fact, they have fewer.
Books emerging from a house with a mountain in the background.

Library Futures Releases
2023 Annual Report

"I like to say our work is “urgent and emergent,” and looking to 2024, it
remains so." —Jennie Rose Halperin, Director

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A new approach to digital rights
for libraries and the communities they serve

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