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04 October 2008 12:03

Inspiring Libraries

Busy week this week (hence the lack of posts here), culminating in leading a workshop at Brentwood Library last night as part of the Essex Poetry Festival. The theme of this year’s National Poetry Day is “Work”, so I designed some activities Read More...
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28 November 2007 13:36

An answer to the Google Book Search conundrum?

Frank Pasquale posted Conditions for the Digital Library of Alexandria on his blog a few days ago - it is a considered response to Google (and other) major digitisation projects. His thesis is that, given that there are several of these major projects Read More...
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03 July 2007 09:02

Mass digitization: Good Thing or Bad Thing?

Publishers are noticeably nervous about the mass digitization projects such as Google Book Search, and - as reported earlier - Richard Charkin dines out on his laptop heist , which was designed to demonstrate to Google staff the difference between opting Read More...
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07 June 2007 23:24

e-Books: the rise and fall (and fall)...

Staying with a musical theme (David Bowie, this time) e-books have been hitting high spots - as witnessed by several recent postings here, and also by one of the many postings from the SLA Conference in Denver: E-Books on Steroids . A resurgence of US Read More...
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25 May 2007 08:12

Is Google Book Search locking up public domain works?

Boing Boing reports that the Google contract with libraries does not in any way grant them exclusive rights to scan that library's books. Google Book Search was at pains to reassure the industry and even made available a copy of one of their contracts. Read More...
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