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

  
  Digitization 101 — Authority: 116
  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 ...
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• Press Review: Google Book Search Revised Settlement Settlement (2.0) Released

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 652
  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

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 652
  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: 116
  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: 116
  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: 652
  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: 652
  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: 652
  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: 652
  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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• Princeton Theological Seminary Library Partnering with Internet Archive to Digitize Content

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 652
  From the Web Site: The Princeton Seminary library is delighted to be working in partnership with the Internet Archive, a 501(c)3 organization in San Francisco, to digitize a selection of out-of-copyright books from its collections. Approximately 21,000 items have been scanned to date. These books include ...
  5 days ago

• Parties Involved Ask for a Brief Extension Before Google Book Search Settlement 2.0 Released

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 652
  An new version of the Google Book Search settlement was expected to be released today. However, as the NY Times reports, those involved have asked for more time. As of today, “Settlement 2.0″ will be released this Friday. The parties to the Google book settlement, which would legalize the creation of a vast ...
  6 days ago

• An Interview with Project Gutenberg Founder Michael Hart

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 652
  Andrea Kobeskzo recently interviewed Michael Hart and now you can read the Q & A interview on the Project Gutenberg News Portal. Here’s an interesting passage when Kobeskzo asks Hart about how Project Gutenberg has evolved over the years (PG began in 1971). Hart says: Believe it or not people were still ...
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• Open Book Alliance Releases Baseline Requirements for Revised Google Book Settlement Proposal

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 652
  On Monday (November 9th), a revised proposed settlement (aka Settlement 2.0) from Google, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publisher will be released. The Open Book Alliance (OBA) has posted on its web site what they call “baseline requirements” for the Settlement 2.0. The Special Libraries ...
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• Internet Archive Founder Brewster Kahle Profiled in Forbes

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 652
  Brewster Kahle has many titles. These days he’s best known as founder of the Internet Archive (home of The Wayback Machine) and founding member of the Open Content Alliance. From the Article: “We have to have universal access to everything, just like a library,” he says. “Do we want that under a ...
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• Marketing in a Digital Age

  
  There Are No Rules — Authority: 523
  More than a year ago, I left a comment on the Booksquareblog by Kassia Krozser, on a post titled " WhyPublishers Should Blog ." Kassia argued that publishers needed to be more vocalabout supporting the titles they publish. I responded: Definitely agree, but I have to wonder if the lackof enthusiastic comments ...
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• Bibliotheca Alexandrina: A Digital Revival

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 652
  The Bibliotheca Alexandrina is one busy place. If you want to learn more read on through our highlights but make sure to read the complete article. Our highlights is just a sample of what’s going on. From the Article: The International School of Information Science (ISIS) a research institute affiliated ...
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• Jills November digitization workshop (Switzerland)

  
  Digitization 101 — Authority: 116
  On Monday, Nov. 9, I am giving a workshop entitled "Planning & Management of Digitization Programmes" in Geneva, Switzerland. The full-day workshop is sponsored by the Association of International Librarians & Info. Specialists (AILIS). More information is available and, I believe, registration is ...
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• More Digitization Underway: This Time Footnote.com is Digitizing the U.S. Census from 1790-1930

  
  ResourceShelf — Authority: 652
  Footnote.com is once again partnering the National Records and Administration Agency (NARA) to digitize massive amounts of content and then make that material available, often for a fee, available online. Footnote is becoming–and for some has already become–and important resource for historians, genealogists, ...
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• Digitization and the (Vanishing) Arts of the Book

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 163
  Standards Blog: "It seems that the stage must be set for the artistic wonders of the Middle Ages to be duplicated again, not in only hundreds of books a year laboriously created across all of Europe, but in an endless number of pages crafted by the thousands of gifted individuals now able to display their talents ...
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• "Removing All Restrictions: Cornells New Policy on Use of Public Domain Reproductions"

  
  DigitalKoans — Authority: 504
  Peter Hirtle , Cornell University Librarys Senior Policy Advisor, is interviewed in " Removing All Restrictions: Cornells New Policy on Use of Public Domain Reproductions ," which has been published in the latest issue of Research Library Issues . Heres an excerpt: Restrictions on the use of public domain work, ...
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