tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-53352312011-04-21T23:07:21.296-04:00exploring issues in theological librarianship... Jackhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15426707684201484538noreply@blogger.comBlogger2861100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5335231.post-1132787673119413882005-11-23T18:12:00.000-05:002006-01-26T20:05:11.500-05:00

Theolib is moving to a new server. For both archived and new articles, go to:http://comm745-static25.bu.edu/blogs/theolib

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Official Google Blog: Judging Book Search by its cover

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ACM Queue - Order from Chaos - How can ontologies and the Semantic Web help us structure the world's semi-structured information?

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2005

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Google SMS

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MICHAEL: Multilingual Inventory of Cultural Heritage in Europe. Technical approach/Technology used

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Amazon tries its hand at tagging | News.blog | CNET News.com

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LibraryThing | Catalog your books online

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RSS4Lib:: On-The-Fly RSS by LC Number for Voyager

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The OCKHAM Initiative

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The OCKHAM Initiative

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v.4 � Blog Archive � More Classcaster Sitings

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Crunching the metadata - The Boston Globe

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Alexandria Manifesto on Libraries, the Information Society in Action

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For a couple years I've been producing a weekly list of new books and another list of journals that have been received during the past week. Using an expect script, I scheduled a CREATE LIST on our Innovative Interfaces system to run on Sunday nights. The output of that list was sent to me by E-mail. I saved the contents of the message as a text file and used a perl script to convert the list to

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YBP Library Services -- provider of books and supporting collection management and technical services

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Catalogablog

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Informing Science Institute ::: Main Page

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NewsForge | NewsForge presents free OpenOffice.org training videos

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WSJ.com - Building an Online Library, One Volume at a Time

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Online books | Pulp friction | Economist.com

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Machiavelli and Leadership: Is it Applicable in Libraries?

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"Re–imagining Web analysis as circulation" by Christopher A. Paul First Monday, volume 10, number 11 (November 2005), URL: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_11/paul/index.htmlabstract: "Many forms of Internet analysis grew out of literary and textual criticism that focused on interpreting meaning(s) in particular texts. In extending a meaning–based approach to Web texts, analyses have

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Lawrence Lessig's obersvations on the battle for control of the Internet. See also my earlier posting...Foreign Policy: Seven Questions: Battling for Control of the InternetLawrence Lessig: 'The fundamental point I’ve conveyed in my writing and teaching—apparently no policymaker has yet learned this—is that policy is a function of technology. You can’t do policymaking in cyberspace without

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Microsoft to Offer 100,000 Books Free Online

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Who Will Control the Internet?Kenneth Neil Cukier From Foreign Affairs, November/December 2005Summary: Foreign governments want control of the Internet transferred from an American NGO to an international institution. Washington has responded with a Monroe Doctrine for our times, setting the stage for further controversy.Kenneth Cukier's article about the US decision not to relinquish control

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I've been watching this project with interest for the past few months. My recent trip to South Africa convinced me that we need to find a way to make this project or another like it a success. excerpt: First, the name. I'd been calling the project the sub-hundred dollar laptop... the acronym of which is the unfortunate "SHiL". Negroponte's now calling the project OLPC - One Laptop Per Child.

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BostonHerald.com - Technology News: Amazon.com to sell individual book pagesWith its new Amazon Pages service, Amazon.com Inc. plans to let customers to buy portions of a book - even just one page - for online viewing. A second program, Amazon Upgrade, will offer full online access when a traditional text is purchased. An interesting new business model.... It raises numerous questions for

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NISO Standards - National Information Standards Organization (NISO): "ANSI/NISO Z39.19 - 2005 Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled VocabulariesEquivalent international standard: ISO 2788Abstract: Presents guidelines and conventions for the contents, display, construction, testing, maintenance, and management of monolingual controlled vocabularies. It

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Ambient Findability: Libraries at the Crossroads of Ubiquitous Computing and the Internet

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Google Gears Up to Resume Book Scanning: "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. Adam Smith, Senior Business Product Manager, Google Print, reports on the Official Google Blog that the company is, '...in the process of resuming scanning (it may take a little time)...'

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Official Google Blog: "Tomorrow is the day we said we'd resume scanning in-copyright works with our library partners as part of our initiative to build a card catalog of books with Google Print. We are in the process of resuming scanning (it may take a little time), so you should soon be able to search across more books from our partner libraries at print.google.com. We've already had great

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New York Daily News - Ideas & Opinions - Patricia Schroeder: Google & the rights stuff

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William Patry points to the significance of the Seceond Copy issue in the recent suit by AAP against Google."Google, the Second Suit and Second CopyOn Wednesday, October 19th, the Association of American Publishers, through its members (because the AAP has no standing), filed suit in the SDNY against Google. Nothing new there, that is beyond the earlier Authors' suit. There is, though, an

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Tom Frey's list of ten trends that will shape the future of libraries is not unlike other lists of trends. His trend #9, however, struck me when I read it as being far more significant than the movement among librarians to focus increasingly on user needs:The DaVinci Institute - The Future of LibrariesTrend #9 – We are transitioning from a product-based economy to an experience based economy As

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The status of open access publishing by academic societies

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Europeans burn through digital books | CNET News.com

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[cs/0504084] The Convergence of Digital-Libraries and the Peer-Review Process

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OA Impact Advantage = EA (AA) (QB) QA (CA) UA - Open Access Archivangelism

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Descriptive metadata for copyright status

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Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web

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E-LIS - Electronic resource usage statistics : the challenge and the promise

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The Dublin Core Metadata Registry

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Open Acess Citation

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Pointers for Prospective D-Lib Authors

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erm05610.pdf (application/pdf Object)

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Exploiting "Light-weight" Protocols and Open Source Tools to Implement Digital Library Collections and Services

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Development and Assessment of a Public Discovery and Delivery Interface for a Fedora Repository

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CLIR Reports

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Common Information...

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Official Google Blog: The point of Google Print

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Searching and Browsing in a Digital Library of Historical Maps and Newspapers

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Hierarchical Catalog Records: Implementing a FRBR Catalog: "AbstractIFLA's Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records (FRBR) lay the foundation for a new generation of cataloging systems that recognize the difference between a particular work (e.g., Moby Dick), diverse expressions of that work (e.g., translations into German, Japanese and other languages), different versions of the same

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Yahoo has chosen a much more collaborative, and less controversial effort. Focusing on public domain materials takes the debate away from the intellectual rights issues in which the Google Library project is embroiled. We will all benefit if Google decides to pursue the legal issues at stake. I hope they do. But, providing access to the public domain material is equally important....Open Content

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Tim Wu does an excellent job of highlighting the issues that are at the root of the Google Library project controversy. His is not a legal argument, but an assessment of the cultural shift that is at the root of the debate.Leggo My Ego - GooglePrint and the other culture war. By Tim Wu: "Google has become the new ground zero for the 'other' culture war. Not the one between Ralph Reed and Timothy

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Using Participatory Design to Improve Web Sites

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An announcment of the Open Content Alliance..."Yahoo, The Internet Archive and several other organizations announced the formation of the Open Content Alliance (OCA) to make thousands of books, multimedia files and other materials freely searchable and accessible online."

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WORD template for HCI International 2003 papers: "AbstractChildren are among the fastest growing groups of users of the Internet, so it is important to design searching and browsing interfaces, such as those found in digital libraries, to support them. However, many interfaces geared toward elementary-age children suffer from at least one of two common problems. First, many assume that young

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ARL 241: Seeking a Global Perspective on Scholarly Communication: Contributions from the UKOxford University Press commissioned two studies, one exploring library and publisher "perspectives on appropriate business models for journal content and the other analyzing faculty attitudes and behaviors relating to self-archiving and publishing in open access journals." Both studies are fascinating for

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An interesting model for descriptive metadata elements that pertain to the copyright status of an item...Abstract: The need to express the intellectual property rights of digital materials has focused on access and usage permissions which must be granted by the rights holder. A key set of permissions not acknowledged by these rights expressions is inherent in the legal copyright status of the

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OK. We've just come through Web 2.0. We're still developing web services. So what does a post-web environment look like? The article is good, but the idea of a "post-web environment" is intriguing. I've been thinking that we are rapidly moving from desktop and notebook computers to hand-held devices like cell phones. We're looking at the semantic Web. But is this "post-web?"Abstract: Libraries

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Foreign Policy: The Public Domain: "Within every culture, there is a public domain—a lawyer-free zone, unregulated by the rules of copyright. Throughout history, this part of culture has been vital to the spread and development of creative work. It is the part that gets cultivated without the permission of anyone else.This public domain has always lived alongside a private domain—the part of

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http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/tim/news/2005/09/30/what-is-web-20.html?page=1

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David Carr suggests that print newspapers need an "IPod" moment. Some new data consumption device needs to be developed that can make the content of the newspaper availalble in a simple to use player like the IPod does for music... "No wonder that print is taking a hit. In the Ball State study, the Internet in all of its incarnations beat out reading print materials in all forms in every age

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Lavoie, Brian, Lorcan Dempsey, and Lynn Silpigni Connaway. "Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries." D-Lib Magazine 11, no. 9 (2005).Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries: "The print book is core to library identity and practice, but in an era of zero-sum budgeting, it is almost inevitable that print book budgets will

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Timothy Burke's rather scathing comment on the state of the Online Catalog. It's worth a serious read. I suspect his experience mirrors that of many, thought they don't often express it as articulately as Burke..."Electronic catalogs, wherever you go in the academic world, have become a horrible crazy-quilt assemblage of incompatible interfaces and vendor-constrained listings. Working through

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danah boyd

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"Blogging Outloud: Shifts in Public Voice""Librarian hegemony is no better than Google hegemony."Though this reads a little like a "rant," the early paragraphs are an interesting critique of the rejection of search engines like Google and Yahoo by some librarians...

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The Chronicle: Daily news: 10/03/2005 -- 01: "Another search engine company has joined with academic libraries to digitize large collections of books to make them easily searchable online. Yahoo Inc. has teamed up with the University of California, the University of Toronto, and several archives and technology companies on a project that could potentially bring the complete texts of millions of

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What’s in Your Digital Asset Catastrophe Plan?"The potential problem with a disaster plan is that it can be grounded in assumptions of relative normalcy: the building burns down, a tornado hits, a lower-category hurricane strikes. It may assume severe damage within a confined area and an unimpaired ability of federal, state, and local agencies (as well as relief organizations) to respond. It may

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Naturally, Yahoo had to respond to Google's initiative...The Chronicle: Daily news: 10/03/2005 -- 01: "Another search engine company has joined with academic libraries to digitize large collections of books to make them easily searchable online. Yahoo Inc. has teamed up with the University of California, the University of Toronto, and several archives and technology companies on a project that

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"Cartoon-strip publishers, whose printed-matter sales have been losing steam, are actively embracing mobile media because cell phones are what young people are spending their time and money on."Cell phone sites for cartoon strips are booming, as is demand for popular titles. But at the same time, some famous "manga" artists are bypassing publishing houses to offer their works to "keitai" (cell

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Tim O'Reilly's op-ed piece about the Author's Guild suite against Google..."AUTHORS struggle, mostly in vain, against their fated obscurity. According to Nielsen Bookscan, which tracks sales from major booksellers, only 2 percent of the 1.2 million unique titles sold in 2004 had sales of more than 5,000 copies. Against this backdrop, the recent Authors Guild suit against the Google Library

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James Boyle provides a strong argument against the proposed WIPO Broadcasting and Webcasting Treaty...FT.com / Comment & analysis / Columnists - James Boyle: More rights are wrong for webcasters: "First and most lamentably, intellectual property laws are created without any empirical evidence that they are necessary or that they will help rather than hurt. Second, the policymaking process has

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Fred D. White calls for the return of library collections that can be browsed. I suspect many librarians would agree. The problem has more to do with the cost of housing a collection in a facility designed for browsing as compared with housing a collection in an off-site facility not available for public browsing.The Chronicle: 9/30/2005: Libraries Lost: Storage Bins and Robotic Arms: "Apparently

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The Chronicle: 7/29/2005: Whose Work Is It, Anyway?

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The Chronicle: 7/29/2005: Whose Work Is It, Anyway?

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JISC Legal - Intellectual Property and Electronic Theses

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William Patry revises his stance with regard to the Google Library project, indicating that he views the project as providing a helpful service to researchers and the authors and publishers. In no way, as the project is conceived does it harm the authors and publishers. More intriguing is his attack on the way the Fair Use Doctrine is defined:The Patry Copyright Blog: Google Revisited: "I have

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U of M News Service The response from the University of Michigan to the lawsuit against Google.

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Lawrence Lessig: "Google wants to do nothing more to 20,000,000 books than it does to the Internet: it wants to index them, and it offers anyone in the index the right to opt out. If it is illegal to do that with 20,000,000 books, then why is it legal to do it with the Internet? The “authors’” claims, if true, mean Google itself is illegal. Common sense, or better, commons sense, revolts at the

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Google's response to the suit by the Author's Guild. It's pretty clear in this article that Google does not plan to display even a full page of the book discovered by means of a search of the index.Official Google Blog: Google Print and the Authors Guild: "Let's be clear: Google doesn't show even a single page to users who find copyrighted books through this program (unless the copyright holder

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This is an interesting new "peer-to-peer" service that has developed legal business model. It's basically a bartering system. It would be interesting to imagine what this might look like in the library world.InformationWeek > DVD Swapping > Peerflix Launches Peer-To-Peer DVD Service > September 20, 2005: "Peerflix Inc., an online peer-to-peer DVD trading service, today officially opened for

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Avidly Seeking Wireless Clues From Google - New York Times: "Google, with deep pockets and seemingly boundless ambition, keeps marching steadily beyond Internet searching into new markets like e-mail, advertising, book searches, a satellite map service, instant messaging and telephony. Where next?The most intriguing recent guess, based on a few Google experiments, is free wireless Internet

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This will be an important case to watch. Google could, obviously settle out of court, but I hope this goes to trial. It would be helpful to have a ruling on this case."Three authors filed suit against Google yesterday contending that the company's program to create searchable digital copies of the contents of several university libraries constituted "massive copyright infringement."The lawsuit,

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CNN.com - Google's digital library tests law - Sep 19, 2005: "NEW YORK (AP) -- Tony Sanfilippo is of two minds when it comes to Google's ambitious program to scan millions of books and make their text fully searchable on the Internet.On the one hand, Sanfilippo credits the program for boosting sales of obscure titles at Penn State University Press, where he works. On the other, he's worried that

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InternetWeek | Courts Unlikely To Stop Google Book Copying: "Despite objections from publishers and writers, copyright law appears to be on Google's side, legal experts say. The social value of Google's initiative to digitize library books, including those protected by copyright, will likely weigh heavily in the search engine's favor."

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Innovative Press Release: "Innovative Interfaces announced today the completion of a project to link Open WorldCat™, a Web-accessible union catalog of over 61 million records, with over 700 Innovative public and academic library systems in North America. Users of search engine tools like Google™ and Yahoo! Search™ will be able to view local items from Innovative libraries with just a few clicks

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New Scientist Breaking News - Camera phones will be high-precision scanners"New software, developed by NEC and the Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) in Japan, goes further than existing cellphone camera technology by allowing entire documents to be scanned simply by sweeping the phone across the page."A couple years ago, Marshall Keys suggested that the cellphone would become the

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Sanfilippo's response is really on target. There is at least preliminary evidence that making digital copies of books available increases sales. But the larger issue is that the whole nature of publishing is changing.The business models that publishers have used are really shaky right now..."On the one hand, Sanfilippo credits the program for boosting sales of obscure titles at Penn State

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"There is one bright spot on the immediate horizon for e-bookery -- electronic paper. This is a catch-all phrase for thin, plastic, embedded with tiny colored balls or black-and-white disks that respond to electric charge, creating text and graphics like pixels on a screen. The stuff is by no means new -- the first versions were cooked up by the wizards at Xerox PARC back in the 1970s -- but

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CLIR Reports: "This report will be useful to anyone interested in the current state of online American literature resources. Its purpose is twofold: to offer a sampling of the types of digital resources currently available or under development in support of American literature; and to identify the prevailing concerns of specialists in the field as expressed during interviews conducted between

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excerpt: The California Digital Library (CDL) was awarded a two-year National Science Foundation grant in 2003 to build on and enhance the National Science Digital Library (NSDL)1. As part of this research project, CDL is building a prototype service that will demonstrate how NSDL collections can be integrated with other library science and technology collections (e.g., licensed commercial

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Journal Publishing and Author Self-Archiving: Peaceful Co-Existence and Fruitful Collaboration - Open Access Archivangelism:"SUMMARY: The UK Research Funding Councils (RCUK) have proposed that all RCUK fundees should self-archive on the web, free for all, their own final drafts of journal articles reporting their RCUK-funded research, in order to maximise their usage and impact. ALPSP (a learned

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For the past week, I've been hearing news reports of people trying to locate their relatives and friends who have been displaced by Hurricane Katrina. In the same reports, I hear of all the web sites that have been created to allow people to post queries to find people and others to post information to say they are "OK." The Librarians' Index to the Internet has added nearly 100 sites in the

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Courts Unlikely To Stop Google Book Copying: "Despite objections from publishers and writers, copyright law appears to be on Google's side, legal experts say. The social value of Google's initiative to digitize library books, including those protected by copyright, will likely weigh heavily in the search engine's favor."

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The Public DomainHere Today, Gone TomorrowBy Lawrence Lessig"This public domain has always lived alongside a private domain—the part of culture that is owned and regulated, that part whose use requires the permission of someone else. Through the market incentives it creates, the private domain has also produced extraordinary cultural wealth throughout the world. It is essential to how cultures

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Professors Online: The Internet's Impact on college facultyby Steve Jones and Camille Johnson–Yaleabstract: This paper reports on findings from a nationwide survey of Internet use by U.S. college faculty. The survey asked about general Internet use, use of specific Internet technologies (e–mail, IM, Web, etc.), the Internet’s impact on teaching and research, its impact on faculty–student

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