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• Google Book Search: Amazon.com Files Motion Asking Judge to Reconsider His Preliminary Approval of Settlement 2.0

  
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  James Grimmelmann writes on The Laboratorium: It’s a full-on attack on the settlement; Amazon’s theory is that the future-claims issue is such a fundamental flaw in the settlement that there is no way Judge Chin could ultimately approve it. [Snip] Thus, Amazon argues, Judge Chin should save time and ...
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• Google Books Settlement 2.0: Evaluating Competition

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 669
  Its been a week since Settlement 2.0 was released. We have a comprehensive press review along with many related documents from the past week here. Until the next major event and our next press review, we will continue to post Settlement 2.0 news and analysis with a focus on stories, analysis, and opinion that has ...
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• Collection Development: Want a Non-Stop Stream of Recently Digitized eBooks to Choose From? Check This Out!

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 669
  A Never Ending “Virtual Stream” of Digitized Text by Gary Price, Senior Editior When Chris Sherman and I were writing and then giving book talks and presentations about The Invisible Web, we said John Mark Ockerbloom’s Online Books Page was an essential resource for anyone interested in digitized, full text ...
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• Judge Gives Preliminary Approval to Google Deal, Sets Feb. 18 for Final Hearing

  
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  From the Article: Judge Denny Chin has given his preliminary approval to the Google Book Search settlement agreement and established a timeline to move the agreement toward a final resolution. A final settlement/fairness hearing has been set for February 18 at which Judge Chin will hear arguments to determine ...
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• HathiTrust Offers Full-Text Search of Millions of Digitized Books and Journals

  
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  From the Announcement: A year after its launch by 25 leading U.S. research libraries, HathiTrust Digital Library announces a service that will transform how researchers use the more than 1.6 billion pages (4.6 million volumes) in its collections. The breakthrough allows for full-text searching capabilities ...
  2 days ago

• Australia: Historic Newspaper Digitisation: Early Editions of Sydney Morning Herald Now Available Online; What is Trove?

  
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  From an e-Mail: The National Library’s Australian Newspapers service has recently made available https://mail.google.com/mail/?zx=1rjv366gqucji&shva=1#inbox/1250a7f37fa96144early editions of The Sydney Morning Herald. The digitisation of The Sydney Morning Herald was made possible by a $1 million ...
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• Volunteer mapmakers: Changing our views

  
  Tracing the Tribe: The Jewish Genealogy Blog — Authority: 435
  Do you use Google Maps? Do you know where they come from? Have you ever had a GPS device problem? In summer 2007, I spoke at the Jewish Genealogical Society of Sacramento (California). The president drove me from the train to his house, cautioning me to watch his GPS device. As we neared his home, the voice ...
  3 days ago

• Just Released: Shakespeare Quartos Archive Opens Access to Hamlet

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 669
  We are looking forward to spending some quality time with this very high quality resources (that’s also free). If nothing else, it really shows off the power of digital archives and digitization. From the Announcement: The highly-anticipated Shakespeare Quartos Archive has been officially launched today ...
  4 days ago

• Digitization Activities: Project Planning and Management Outline

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 479
  The Federal Agencies Digitization Guidelines Initiative has released Digitization Activities: Project Planning and Management Outline . Heres an excerpt from the announcement : The aim of this document is to define activities relating to the digitization of original cultural materials, and to outline general ...
  5 days ago

• Bookless Libraries Increase Accessibility

  
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  From the Article Carnegie Mellon has for years already been building its own “bookless library”: “For the nearly 15 years I’ve been in the Carnegie Mellon Libraries, we’ve been working hard to provide the campus with what I think is a very realistic view of the library of the future. We are working ...
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• Revised Google Book Settlement

  
  Library Boy — Authority: 425
  On Friday, some important modifications were made to the proposed Google Book Settlement that is supposed to end a class action lawsuit by U.S.-based author and publisher groups over Googles plans to make and sell digital copies of millions of books. One of the major concessions made by Google is that the ...
  6 days ago

• Press Review+: Google Book Search Revised Settlement (2.0) Released; What About Libraries?

  
  Digitization 101 — Authority: 124
  Resource Shelf has collected information on the revised Google Books Settlement agreement, which was released yesterday. Its long and draws upon analysis and information provided by several sources. I would expect more people to release that analysis in the coming days. This work is licensed under a Creative ...
  1 week ago

• Press Review: Google Book Search Revised Settlement Settlement (2.0) Released

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 669
  We’re going to on the lookout for news, commentary from experts, and viewpoints from various organizations and companies involved in the GBS story. We’re only posting selected snippets with links to the full text. + Modifications to the Google Books Settlement (via Google Public Policy Blog, Dan Clancy) + ...
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• Digitized Historic Newspapers: Topic Guides for Chronicling America

  
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  The Chronicling America from the NEH and the Library of Congress is searchable database containing more than million digitized American newspapers pages (and growing) from 1880-1922. Guides cover topics “widely covered” in the American press of the time. As of today (11/13/2009), there are 21 guides available ...
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• Call for papers: IADIS International Conference E-Society 2010

  
  Digitization 101 — Authority: 124
  Received via email... CALL FOR PAPERS - Deadline for submissions (1st call extension): 4 December 2009 -- IADIS INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE E-SOCIETY 2010 March 18-21, 2010 – Porto, Portugal ( http://www.esociety-conf.org/ ) * Keynote Speaker (confirmed): ...
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• Suzanne Preate on "Digital Project Management: Best Practices"

  
  Digitization 101 — Authority: 124
  In early October, Suzanne Preate from Bird Library at Syracuse University did a session at a conference in Potsdam, NY entitled Digitizing: Best Practices . Suzanne reports that the session should have been named "Digital Project Management: Best Practices" because that describes better what she discussed. The ...
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• Milestones: The British Library’s Digital Library Passes 500,000 Items

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 669
  From the Announcement: The British Library has added the 500,000th item to its long-term Digital Library System. The milestone item was a digitised copy of a newspaper originally published in 1864 and scanned as part of the Library’s 19th Century British Library Newspapers project, which recently made more than 2 ...
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• Update: NARA/Footnote Holocaust Collection of Digitized Records, Materials to Remain Free Through December 31st

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 669
  At the end of September we posted an in-depth overview about a new collection of digitized Holocaust records from the National Archives (NARA) and Footnote. Our post said that at the end of October a sizable portion of the content would only be available to Footnote.com subscribers. Today, an update. All of the ...
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• Digital Archives: Siegfried Sassoon Collection Added to First World War Digital Poetry Archive

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 669
  We first posted about The First World War Digital Poetry Archive from Oxford University in September. The First World War Poetry Digital Archive is an online repository of over 4000 items of text, images, audio, and video for teaching, learning, and research. The heart of the archive consists of collections of ...
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• A New Digital Collection: A Calm Voice in a Strident World: Senator J.W. Fulbright Speaks

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 669
  This new digital collection comes from the University of Arkansas Libraries. From the About Page: For three decades following World War II, J.W. Fulbright represented Arkansas in the Congress of the United States. His single term in the House and four terms in the Senate saw Fulbright rise to become the ...
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