Hachette will be making the digitized books available to the national library (Bibliothèque Nationale de France) and other libraries. Google has been unable to win such deals with U.S.publishers, and is currently involved in litigation with the...
Institutional Subscriptions to Millions of Books Online --Offering a means for U.S.colleges, universities and other organizations to obtain subscriptions for online access to collections from some of the world's most renowned libraries
In its original form the Patriot Act granted the FBI, among other things, the power to issue “national security letters” (NSLs) that would compel search engines, ISPs, phone companies, libraries and other public sources of information to turn over...
There are some web sites which aim to help, however, such as Librarian and I Love Libraries. For those of you who graduated over a decade ago, you'd be amazed at how academic and public libraries have transformed into electronic wonders, open 24/7.
Yahoo Censorship In China, Not So Much - Google's blogging about how it is supporting the 25th anniversary of the American Library Association's Banned Book Week by posting information about novels that have been challenged or banned from being...
Google's blogging (and here) about how it is supporting the 25th anniversary of the American Library Association's Banned Book Week by posting information about novels that have been challenged or banned from being in libraries within the...
American Library Association's Banned Book Week by posting information about novels that have been challenged or banned from being in libraries within the Libraries should challenge censorship in the fulfillment of their responsibility to provide...
While these emails seem to have been centered on American libraries it will be interesting to see if the same thing happens in the UK. Unfortunately however, this may be seen in some circles as a justification for the calls for libraries to limit...
Postscript: Google argues with U.K.publishers over digital libraries from News.com covers publishers in the UK making new attacks against the program. American Publishers Sues Google over Library Digitization Plan and
OAIster is an index to academically-oriented "digital resources" available for free from close to 600 libraries and other organizations. Other examples of free, high-quality publications include the IBM Journal of Research and Development and JAMA...
As a librarian, I'm thrilled that the potential for people to make better use of their libraries could be made possible by Google's Library Program. Coleman points out libraries and others have been digitizing books in one form or another for many...
New Mashup Combines Public Library Location Info with Google and Yahoo Maps - If you live in the US or Canada you no longer can say you don't know where public libraries in your area or any area for that matter are located.
To build the site, Clusty received support from the National Science Foundation and Pennsylvania Commonwealth Libraries. News from Clusty this morning that they have launched a new "specialty search database" to mark the 300th Bithday (his...
Search is taking copyrighted books out of libraries and putting them online in a viewable format. As I've said many times in 2005, many libraries like the San Francisco Public Library offer access to this service for FREE!
It aims to be a repository of one-of-a-kind collections from nations around the world, a much expanded version of the Global Gateway digital library site that the Library of Congress maintains in partnership with other national libraries such as...
Google Library launched in December 2004, with the goal of taking books (both in and out of copyright) in public libraries and scanning them to make them searchable. American Association of Publishers
It's November 1st, the day Google said they would resume scanning books of all types (including in-copyright materials) from the five libraries they're working with. Breaking Down The Google Print 5 Libraries
In the case of these books (public domain content), Microsoft is making deals on their own with libraries (we don't know which ones) who will provide the content. As noted earlier, Microsoft also wants to scan the full text of in-copyright books...
In a letter to the chairmen of the House and Senate Judiciary subcommittees overseeing intellectual property issues, the nation's oldest consumer advocacy group raised concerns about a forthcoming ambitious effort to catalogue the entire...
As I tried to make clear yesterday, their is a clear difference between the Google Print program (where material comes directly from publishers) and the Google Library scanning program where Google plans to retrospectively scan every book in...
