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Via Searchblog, I read the excerpts from a speech by the President of the University of Michigan, Mary Sue Coleman, about Google Book Search or to be more specific Google's Library Program. As a librarian, I'm thrilled that the potential for people...
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In reality, this book wasn't scanned through the library program. No need to visit the library to find that copyrighted book. As I've said many times in 2005, many libraries like the San Francisco Public Library offer access to this service for FREE!
Google Print Now Publishing Out-Of-Copyright Works Gained Through Library Scanning Program Tomorrow, the Google Library Project will be one year old. Here's a link to our first SearchDay article about the Google Library Project from December 14, 2004.
Google Catalogs is/was not only useful (save a tree kind of thing) but also a great demo of ocr scanning technology that I would think has some place in the Google Book Search/Google Library Project. Since we're on the topic of useful scanned...
All you need is a library card from a library that offers NetLibrary services. For example, the San Francisco Public Library offers a collection of NetLibrary materials that you "virtually" check out from the collection.
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For example, the San Francisco Public Library offers a collection of NetLibrary materials that you "virtually" checkout from the collection. All you need is a library card from a library that offers NetLibrary services.
Google patents on CD, using Google patents to push domain names, upcoming debates over Google Print's library scanning program, a flap about Yahoo rewarding employees for kicking some Google tush, cool comparison charts of search and portal...
This is not the same thing as the Google Library scanning program that has caused lots of attention and that will only show "snippets" of scanned in-copyright library materials. Last week, we posted details about these programs (Amazon Pages and...
Library Program, Google's library digitization project. It is difficult for anyone to understand the differences between the publisher program, the library scanning program and what both allow and do.
Google Print is now publishing the full-text of public domain/out-of-copyright print works it has acquired through the Google Print library scanning project. The move comes a couple of days after it was announced that Google was resuming its...
Then, some (but not all of this material, depending on the library and the actual content) will be available as part of the OCA database. Every library that provides a copy of the book for scanning will also recieve a file for local use.
I mentioned both of these services (available from home via many libraries) in my original post about the Google Library Program. Back in June, we blogged about a trade group of German publishers considering their own book digitization program.
