A response to the Durham Statement Two Years Later

Law Library Journal

Volumn 103, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 281-286

  Leary, Margaret A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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References (27)

1. Richard A. Danner, Kelly Leong & Wayne V. Miller, The Durham Statement Two Years Later: Open Access in the Law School Journal Environment, 103 LAW LIBR. J. 39
2. LAW LIBR. J. 2.
3. Durham Statement on Open Access to Legal Scholarship (Feb. 9, 2009), available at http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/publications/durhamstatement.
4. NEW YORKER, June 8 & 15, 2009 (cover).
5. "The Durham Statement on Open Access One Year Later: Preservation and Authentication of Legal Scholarship", presentation at the 103rd Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries, Denver, Colorado, July 13, 2010.
6. The article argues that print is perishable and expensive to buy and house, and that digital access is the preferred access method.
7. Danner, Leong & Miller, supra note 1, at 46, 47, ¶¶ 24, 28.
8. After discussing options for digital formatting (id. at 47-49, ¶¶29-33), issues of preserving digital information are covered
9. (id. at 50-52, ¶¶ 37-42). The issues I outline above are not addressed.
10. ROBERT DARNTON, THE CASE FOR BOOKS 37-38 (2009). The Durham Statement Two Years Later quotes Darnton's statement "Information has never been stable."
11. Danner, Leong & Miller, supra note 1, at 46, ¶ 23
12. (quoting DARNTON, supra, at 29). But Darnton's point in the first chapter, which contains both quotes, is the relative instability, unreliability, and unpredictable future of the Google digitization project.
13. See James Glanz & John Markoff, Egypt's Autocracy Found Internet's "Off" Switch, N. Y. TIMES, Feb. 16, 2011, at A1;
14. Matt Richtel, Egypt Halts Most Internet and Cell Service, and Scale of Shutdown Surprises Experts, N. Y. TIMES, Jan. 29, 2011, at A13.
15. See Authentication, GOV'T PRINTING OFFICE, http://www.gpo.gov/ authentication/index.htm (last visited Feb. 16, 2011);
16. RICHARD J. MATTHEWS & MARY ALICE BAISH, AM. ASS'N OF LAW LIBRARIES, STATE-BY-STATE REPORT ON AUTHENTICATION OF ONLINE LEGAL RESOURCES (2007), available at http://www.aallnet.org/aallwash/authen-rprt/AuthenFinalReport.pdf.
17. DARNTON, supra note 6, at 27-32.
18. John Schwartz, In Storing l's and 0's, the Question is, N. Y. TIMES, Apr. 9, 2008, at SPG1 (quoting Francine Berman).
19. Daniel Goleman & Gregory Norris, How Green Is My iPad?, N. Y. TIMES, Apr. 4, 2010, at WK11.
20. See also DANIEL GOLEMAN, ECOLOGICAL INTELLIGENCE: HOW KNOWING THE HIDDEN IMPACTS OF WHAT WE BUY CAN CHANGE EVERYTHING (2009).
21. Danner, Leong & Miller, supra note 1, at 53-54, ¶ 45.
22. The Task Force's final report was issued in February 2010. BLUE RIBBON TASK FORCE ON SUSTAINABLE DIGITAL PRES. & ACCESS, SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS FOR A DIGITAL PLANET: ENSURING LONG-TERM ACCESS TO DIGITAL INFORMATION (Feb. 2010), available at http://brtf.sdsc.edu/biblio/BRTF-Final-Report.pdf [hereinafter SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS FOR A DIGITAL PLANET].
23. Berkman Ctr. for Internet & Soc'y, Press Release, Berkman Center Announces Digital Public Library Planning Initiative (Dec. 13, 2010), http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/newsroom/digital-public-library.
24. Id.
25. SUSTAINABLE ECONOMICS FOR A DIGITAL PLANET, supra note 13, at 10.
26. Id. at 12 box1.1.
27. Id. at 14 box1.2.