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Paul Courant's Second Act

He's shaping the libraries of the future

by Eve Silberman

posted 5/29/2012

Last summer, negotiations seemed to be moving along between the U-M and the Authors Guild of America, which represents some 8,000 authors. The guild was concerned that books still in copyright might be improperly shared through HathiTrust, an online archive housed at the university. “We had scheduled a visit,” recalls Paul Courant, head of the U-M library

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