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Large Scale Digitization in the AI Era: Issues and Model Terms for Libraries and Their Partners (New Issue Paper From Center For Research Libraries)

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THE AI ANGLE
Driving commercial proposals to digitize library collections at scale

The Center for Research Libraries has released an issue paper addressing the growing number of proposals to digitize library collections at scale for use in commercial artificial intelligence and proprietary services. While such partnerships provide benefits like reduced digitization costs, preservation, and expanded access, they present critical challenges regarding ownership, public access, compensation, permitted uses, and institutional control. These developments matter for higher education and library leadership because agreements negotiated by individual institutions risk establishing binding precedents for the broader stewardship of cultural and scholarly resources.

THE TEACHING ANGLE
Students can debate the tension between leveraging commercial partnerships for affordable digital preservation and maintaining public access, institutional control, and fair compensation over library collections.

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