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Jennie Rose Halperin — Open Culture VOICES, Season 2 Episode 25
by Brigitte Vézina, Connor Benedict Open CultureJennie says “one thing that I love about the internet is that it has allowed us to do things we weren’t able to in the past.” In this episode we learn about the differences between digital and physical collections and what it means to be open to the public online as well as in real…
Securing the right to read for the visually impaired
by Timothy Vollmer CopyrightBraille soon coming to Visual Libraries Project by Claire Sambrook, CC BY-NC 2.0. Today the Marrakesh Treaty—the international agreement to improve access to copyrighted works for the blind and visually impaired—goes into effect. The treaty has been discussed at the World Intellectual Property Organization since 2008 and was signed in Marrakesh in June 2013. It…