A “digital fall semester” for students all over the world

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Because of that, we felt we could, and . Should, and needed to make the digitized versions of those books available to students in . A controlled way to help during a global emergency. As the emergency receded, we knew . Libraries could return to loaning physical books and the books would be withdrawn from digital . Circulation. It was a lending system that we could scale up immediately and then shut .

Back down again by june 30th.And then, on june 1st, we were sued by four . Publishers and they demanded we stop lending digitized books in general and then they also . Demanded we permanently destroy millions of digital books. Even though the temporary national emergency library . Was closed before june 30th, the planned end date, and we are back to traditional . Controlled digital lending, the publishers have not backed down.

Schools and libraries are now preparing for . , and the publishers europe cell phone number list are still . Suing.Please remember that what libraries do is buy, preserve, and lend books.Controlled digital lending is . A respectful and balanced way to bring our print collections to digital learners. A physical . Book, once digital, is available to only one reader at a time. Going on for .

Nine years and now practiced by hundreds of libraries, controlled digital lending is a longstanding, . Widespread library practice.What is at stake with this suit may sound insignificant—that it is just . Controlled digital lending—but please remember– this is fundamental to what libraries do: buy, preserve, and . Lend. With this suit, the publishers are saying that in the digital world, we cannot . Buy books anymore, we can only license and on their terms; we can only preserve .

In ways for which they have granted explicit permission, and for only as long as . They grant permission; and we cannot lend what we have paid for because we do . Not own it. This is not a rule of law, this is the rule by . License. This does not make sense. We say that libraries have the right to buy . Books, preserve them, and lend them even in the digital world.