U-M Library
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January 27, 2015
U-M helps open more than 25,000 early English books to public
A partnership that includes the U-M Library has made public more than 25,000 manually transcribed texts from 1473-1700 — the first 200 years of the printed book.
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January 12, 2015
Lawsuit over HathiTrust Digital Library resolved
The lawsuit brought by the Author’s Guild alleging copyright infringement by U-M and additional HathiTrust institutions came to a formal conclusion on Jan. 6.
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September 2, 2014
U-M acquires papers of alumnus and activist Tom Hayden
Scholars of contemporary American history, social justice and political reform have a rich new resource to mine in the Tom Hayden Papers at the U-M Library.
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July 14, 2014
Mechanical engineering students take on book scanning challenge
Students in the Mechanical Engineering 450 class are taking on the challenge of creating a low-cost, automatic page-turning scanner to aid small libraries and cultural organizations seeking to preserve local collections.
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July 1, 2014
Charles Watkinson to lead university’s publishing enterprise
Charles Watkinson has been named to the position of associate university librarian for publishing and director of the University of Michigan Press.
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June 11, 2014
Federal appeals court upholds library digitization project
A federal appeals court has upheld library digitization practices as well as certain uses of in-copyright volumes in the HathiTrust Digital Library, in which U-M is a partner.
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May 8, 2014
Bentley receives Mellon Foundation grant to aid digital archiving
The Bentley Historical Library has received a $355,000 grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to partner with the U-M Library in developing a digital archives workflow.
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May 5, 2014
Annual Preservation Clinic a way to protect treasured items
Whether it’s family treasures, antique documents or moldy photo albums, the experts at the annual Preservation Clinic will offer guidance on how to preserve or restore valued items.
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January 23, 2014
Rare civil rights-era newsletter now available online
The U-M Library has digitized the complete set of Selma Inter-religious Project Newsletters and made them available to the public via the HathiTrust Digital Library.
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November 14, 2013
Federal judge rules in favor of Google in book-scanning lawsuit
A federal judge ruled Thursday that Google’s use of copyrighted works in its library books digitization project is “fair use” under copyright laws and therefore does not infringe on authors. U-M was the first library to sign a book scanning agreement with Google.
