Issue 81: Controlled Digital Interlibrary Lending, Gamers Revolt Against NFTs, and Cats

Issue 81: Controlled Digital Interlibrary Lending, Gamers Revolt Against NFTs, and Cats

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The threads this week:
Controlled Digital Lending Gets a Funding Boost
Gamers Pushing Back Against Non-Fungible Tokens
Cat Dish
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Controlled Digital Lending Gets a Funding Boost
The Davis Educational Foundation has awarded the Boston Library Consortium a two-year $215,000 grant to accelerate the implementation of controlled digital lending as a mechanism for interlibrary loan. The grant supports plans described in BLC’s ‘Consortial CDL: Implementing Controlled Digital Lending as a Mechanism for Interlibrary Loan’ report published in September 2021.
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Davis Educational Foundation award accelerates Boston Library Consortium’s controlled digital lending implementation
, Boston Library Consortium, 13-Jan-2022
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) today announced that it has received a grant of $125,000 from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the development of a consensus framework for implementing controlled digital lending (CDL) of book content by libraries, which has been approved by NISO members as a new initiative.
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NISO Awarded Mellon Funding for Controlled Digital Lending Project
NISO Press Release, 20-Sep-2021
From my perspective, controlled digital lending for interlibrary loan (or «CDILL») is gaining steam.
(I’m trying to make «CDILL» stick as a way of differentiating this type of controlled digital lending from the kind where a library uses CDL techniques to offer its own materials to its own patrons.)
These two funding announcements show support for the development of systems and practices for libraries to advance the cooperation beyond the point of shipping physical books back and forth.
(Although shipping physical books back and forth is still a noble effort by libraries, as last week’s
ode to interlibrary loan
demonstrated.)
The key to mak…