Entries from ©ollectanea tagged with 'mass digitization'
Google Book Search -- and Buy
So, at last, the cards are laid on the table and we see what everyone's holding. And guess who's got the winning hand! No surprise there. Google, by a landslide. (Whoops, my subconscious hopes for election day slipping in there...)...
Section 108 Study Group Report has been published
Lolly Gasaway and Richard Rudick, Co-Chairs of the Section 108 Study Group, have issued their report after a lengthy period of deliberation over quite a few really thorny issues. Readers may recall that last May, Lolly was our guest blogger...
Mass Digitization blogging project completed
After 6 weeks of drafting, posting, tracking blog statistics, and weekly writing in a journal about the experience, I have just completed my blogging experiment at Mass digitization ~ Changing copyright law and policy, by posting the Conclusion today. Here's...
if:book takes a look at the Amazon/Google ebook announcements from earlier this week
I mentioned the announcements about Amazon's new Kindle book reader (wifi'd) and Google's selling access to ebooks online in passing yesterday in a post on a related topic, but today if:book takes a more detailed and future-oriented look at the...
First francophone library signs with Google
I have just returned from a nice 2 week stay in France where I conducted a little research on the French attitude towards the future of libraries in a networked world. In light of the scathing book Jean-Noel Jeanneney, President...
A Big Week for Copyright; End of First Year of Grad School for Georgia
It was a big week for copyright. Events were reported all over the blogosphere. My friend and fellow grad student, Carlos Ovalle, has a nice roundup on his blog, Copy This Blog, where he reports several unsurprising legal opinions based...
Jean-Noel Jeanneney leaves France's Bibliotheque National
I read with interest today that the President of the Bibliotheque National, Jean-Noel Jeanneney, has apparently been forced to resign:Jean-Noel Jeanneney quitte la presidence de la BnF - Tour de Toile du BBF. You might wonder why this seems important...
Microsoft Pulls Out All the Stops to Catch Google
Microsoft has made headlines a lot lately. The release of Vista, a new Book Search interface, a scathing attack on Google earlier this week before an AAP gathering in NY, and now, this NY Times article, Searching for Michael Jordan?...
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