Copyright records serve a variety of information needs from finding the current owner of a work to a survey of cultural development in the United States. Users of the records approach them in different ways depending on their particular need at the moment. Similarly, there are different approaches to how we can make the currently …
During the first 6 weeks of this blog’s existence we’ve received many thoughtful and helpful comments from visitors. Your comments are being carefully studied and used as input to decision making about what records to work on first and how to capture, index and make them available. Optical character recognition (OCR) and crowd sourcing have …
There are about 70 million cards and record book pages among the pre-1978 Copyright records. I thought it might be interesting to show some examples of these paper records, kind of a show and tell post. Three types of records are shown below. Click on any of the thumbnails below to see a larger image. …