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Controlled digital lending (CDL) is a model by which libraries digitize materials in their collection and make them available for lending. It is based on interpretations of U.S. copyright principles of fair use and copyright exhaustion. However, there is significant controversy among the actors involved (authors, writers and libraries) about the legality of this model.

Mbooks are open-access, digitized books freely available on the Internet. This article describes the Auraria Library's experience of loading brief MARC records for Mbooks into its online public access catalog and looks at some of the issues that arose from the record-loading project. Despite the low quality of the records, librarians in Auraria Library thought that loading them into the catalog was advantageous because of the rich content in the collection, and because many of the records could be improved using the global update functionality in the catalog. Making the records available through the catalog, as opposed to merely linking to the entire collection from the Library's Web page, was considered to be valuable because of the aggregation a catalog provides, and because the Mbooks collection helped fill gaps in the Library's physical collections. As more open-access, digitized books become available, libraries will need to plan and manage how best to provide access to them.

Public libraries are social institutions whose mission is to serve everyone in the communities where they are inserted. Considering the Brazilian reality, composed mostly of black and brown people, the importance of literary reading for the reader’s formation and the representativeness of public library collections, this research penetrated such collections as to verify the presence of black men and women authors of Afro-Brazilian literature. It focused on the following variables: gender, date and place of birth, and the presence or absence of the authors and their works in the collections of fourteen libraries whose catalogues are available online. The descriptive research revealed that there is no proper incorporation of books of Afro-Brazilian literature in the collections of public libraries, compromising a democratization of the library that is not only longed for but indispensable. Thus, it is necessary to discuss a different formation and development of these collections,with a view to a ‘collection repair’that would decolonize the gaze, allowing access to the bibliographic legacy, mainly in literature, by black authors, so that public libraries can constitute democratic and representative spaces of Brazilian society.

Public libraries are social institutions whose mission is to serve everyone in the communities where they are inserted. Considering the Brazilian reality, composed mostly of black and brown people, the importance of literary reading for the reader’s formation and the representativeness of public library collections, this research penetrated such collections as to verify the presence of black men and women authors of Afro-Brazilian literature. It focused on the following variables: gender, date and place of birth, and the presence or absence of the authors and their works in the collections of fourteen libraries whose catalogues are available online. The descriptive research revealed that there is no proper incorporation of books of Afro-Brazilian literature in the collections of public libraries, compromising a democratization of the library that is not only longed for but indispensable. Thus, it is necessary to discuss a different formation and development of these collections,with a view to a ‘collection repair’that would decolonize the gaze, allowing access to the bibliographic legacy, mainly in literature, by black authors, so that public libraries can constitute democratic and representative spaces of Brazilian society.

Public libraries are social institutions whose mission is to serve everyone in the communities where they are inserted. Considering the Brazilian reality, composed mostly of black and brown people, the importance of literary reading for the reader’s formation and the representativeness of public library collections, this research penetrated such collections as to verify the presence of black men and women authors of Afro-Brazilian literature. It focused on the following variables: gender, date and place of birth, and the presence or absence of the authors and their works in the collections of fourteen libraries whose catalogues are available online. The descriptive research revealed that there is no proper incorporation of books of Afro-Brazilian literature in the collections of public libraries, compromising a democratization of the library that is not only longed for but indispensable. Thus, it is necessary to discuss a different formation and development of these collections,with a view to a ‘collection repair’that would decolonize the gaze, allowing access to the bibliographic legacy, mainly in literature, by black authors, so that public libraries can constitute democratic and representative spaces of Brazilian society.

Public libraries are social institutions whose mission is to serve everyone in the communities where they are inserted. Considering the Brazilian reality, composed mostly of black and brown people, the importance of literary reading for the reader’s formation and the representativeness of public library collections, this research penetrated such collections as to verify the presence of black men and women authors of Afro-Brazilian literature. It focused on the following variables: gender, date and place of birth, and the presence or absence of the authors and their works in the collections of fourteen libraries whose catalogues are available online. The descriptive research revealed that there is no proper incorporation of books of Afro-Brazilian literature in the collections of public libraries, compromising a democratization of the library that is not only longed for but indispensable. Thus, it is necessary to discuss a different formation and development of these collections,with a view to a ‘collection repair’that would decolonize the gaze, allowing access to the bibliographic legacy, mainly in literature, by black authors, so that public libraries can constitute democratic and representative spaces of Brazilian society.

This paper reviews issues related to the concept and definition of digital libraries, the problems posed by the development and management of digital collections, digital library evaluation, and available software tools.

The number of information sources available through both printed and electronic media are ever increasing. Even libraries with sizable collection development budgets are having difficulties in coping with this increase. Yet with the development of new technologies, the possibilities of innovative interlibrary cooperation projects emerge: libraries combining their efforts through various consortia are trying to get access to electronic information sources more economically. In this paper, we briefly review the state-of-the-art of Turkish university libraries and summarize the efforts to set up a university library consortium to provide consortial access to electronic information sources and services. We discuss some of the causes which are delaying the establishment of such a consortium.

This is a report on the experience of creating the Rede Brasil de Bibliotecas Comunitárias (RBBC), an online social network that aims to bring together and share information regarding practices employed in setting up local library collections and making them available to the public; discussing the principles that govern the autonomous management of these spaces; establishing ties and creating exchanges between the different agents and spheres involved in this process; and encouraging society’s participation in the construction of public policy for Brazilian libraries. The work presents the theoretical references that make up the foundation of the proposal, the methodology employed and analyzes the data obtained during the first ten months of the network’s existence.