Some of this week's items: Copyright Board makes controversial schools ruling; Ulrich Werneburg appointed Project Manager at Canadiana.org; The Anatomy of a LargeScale Social Search Engine; E-Library Economics

Some of this week's items: Lynda Gadoury appointed interim Directrice générale des bibliothèques, UQÀM ; A Tribute to Alan MacDonald; U.S. Scientists Given Access to Cloud Computing; Justice Dept. Criticizes Latest Google Book Deal

Some of this week's items: The PC Officially Died Today:But will the iPad replace it?; Diagnosing the Tablet Fever in Higher Education; CANARIE provides $300K in resources to build a secure, dedicated network for the Canadian Research Data Centre Network; Cyberinfrastructure and the Research Process in Canada

Some of this week's items: ARL Supports Mandatory Public Access; AAP Offers Cautions, Warns of Piracy; Public access to federally funded research: SPARC comments; Comments of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) Concerning ?Public Access Policies for Science and Technology Funding Agencies Across the Federal Government?; Google Books opponents propose public alternative

Some of this week's items: ALA, ACRL Say All Federal Agencies Should Follow Mandatory Public Access Policies; Report Finds Common Ground in Efforts to Balance Public Access, Scholarly Publishing; ARL Partners in Grant to Study Value of Academic Libraries; Programming skills could transform librarians' roles

Some of this week's items: CARL Produces Data Management Awareness Toolkit; Authors lobby U.S. court to reject Google deal; NFB boss says Canada needs plan to compete, succeed in digital world; Technology gives the law a workout in 2009

Some of this week's items: Data-sharing culture has changed; eScience Librarians; IIPC Access Working Group Launches Web Archive Registry; French Consortium Is Out to Battle Google Over Book Scanning

Some of this week's items: US government looks to expand scientific open access policy; Bill St. Arnaud Steps Down as Chief Research Officer of CANARIE; France to Digitize Its Own Literary Works; Copyright Owners Fight Plan to Release E-Books for the Blind

Some of this week's items: Obama administration seeking OA for federally-funded research; University of Ottawa among North American leaders as it launches open access program; NEPTUNE Canada Ocean Observatory Goes Live; Web Giants Unite to Oppose UK Copyright Proposal

Some of this week's items: 2008-2009 CARL Statistics available on the CARL website; Trust folds, puts Canuck film, music in peril; Canadian copyright law to trump ACTA, Clement says; The data revolution

Some of this week's items: New England university presidents back bill for public access; Waterloo region receives big financial boost to lay groundwork for digital media corridor; Libraries Innovate to Counter Cuts: Tough times are taking a toll but spurring innovations in handling collections; Open science at web-scale: Optimizing participation and predictive potential

Some of this week's items: CARL?s brief to the Canadian Copyright Consultation featured in Osgoode Hall Review of Law and Policy; The Canadian Association of Research Libraries Endorses New Strategic Plan; CARL Awards three Research in Librarianship Grants; Support for the Research Process: An Academic Library Manifesto

Some of this week's items: Internet Archive founder Brewster Kahle Receives Special Recognition by CARL; Nobel Prize-winning scientists urge Congress to act to ensure free online access to federally funded research results; Copyright Treaty Is Policy Laundering at Its Finest; Learning to share

Some of this week's items: Canada in talks over copyright laws with bite; Toronto?s OpenTO data initiative off to quick start; Relationships and Soft Skills: The Core to Effective Library Leadership; Policy Briefing: Communications and Intellectual Property

Some of this week's items: University of Calgary Becomes Newest Member of ARL; 27 October Declared World Day for Audiovisual Heritage; The Closing of an Open-Access Journal; Google's Eric Schmidt sets out the search engine's future

Some of this week's items: The Canadian Association of Research Libraries (CARL) becomes a founding member of the Confederation of Open Access Repositories (COAR); CARL Data Management Working Group and the Maxwell MacOdrum Library at Carleton University sponsoring a research data management workshop for librarians; Canadian regulator allows ISP traffic shaping; The Depot Open Access Repository Becomes International

Some of this week's items: National Interactive Q and A with John Wilbanks on Digital Repositories and the Digital Commons; Juniper Networks and CANARIE Bolster Canada?s Ability to Conduct Big Science and Data-Driven Research; David Barnard appointed Chair of the Board of Directors of the Canadian Research Knowledge Network; Canadian Science Policy Conference

Some of this week's items: Google Book Search Hearing to Be Postponed; PMC Canada: Making Canadian health research accessible to all; Striking the Balance: CFS Submission to the Copyright Consultations; Establishing Trust in a Chain of Preservation: The TRAC Checklist Applied to a Data Staging Repository (DataStaR)

Some of this week's items: CARL?s 2009 Copyright Consultation Submission; Copyright Head Tells House She Opposes Google Books Settlement; Google Said to Be Talking With Justice About Online Book Deal; A Compact for Open-Access Publication

Some of this week's items: Institutional repositories toolkit available from the CARL office; Canada's portrait gallery is no more; 11th-Hour Filings Oppose Google?s Book Settlement; Special issue of Nature examines the cultural and technical hurdles of sharing research data that can get in the way of good intentions