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These two statements contradict: >It's for a limited period of time usually a couple weeks, in an app of some sort. That's what they did, that's CDL. >They te
by ApolloFortyNine 6y ago
These two statements contradict:
>It's for a limited period of time usually a couple weeks, in an app of some sort. That's what they did, that's CDL.
>They temporarily removed waitlists which did allow more people to borrow a title than they had licenses
That is not CDL, by definition (lending out more copies than they had licenses).
Official source, March 30th: http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/30/internet-archive-responds-why-we-released-the-national-emergency-library/ http://blog.archive.org/2020/03/30/internet-archive-responds...
Relevant quote:
>And so, to meet this unprecedented need at a scale never before seen, we suspended waitlists on our lending collection.