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• Old Books vs. E-Books (Robert Darnton on His Upcoming Book)

  
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  We have posted several items about libraries, books, Google digitization, etc. by Robert Darnton, author and director of the Harvard University Library. This post has all of our coverage including links to a few radio/podcast interviews. Today, USC News posted a summary of Darnton’s presentation in Los Angeles ...
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• City of New York and Google Considering Partnership to the Digitize of Tax Photos

  
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  From the Article: In a move aimed at increasing the sale of prints from its collection of old tax photographs, New York City is exploring a deal with Google to digitize part of the collection in exchange for the right to use the images on the company’s searchable maps. The pictures that would be digitized are ...
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• Full Text Titles Online: Gutenberg-e at Columbia University Now Open Access

  
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  From the Home Page: Columbia University Press is pleased to announce that Gutenberg-e is now an open access site. These award winning monographs, coordinated with the American Historical Association, afford emerging scholars new possibilities for online publications, weaving traditional narrative with digitized ...
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• Book Digitization: French President Has Words for Google Without Mentioning Company

  
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  From the Article: French President Nicolas Sarkozy said on Tuesday he would not let his country’s literary heritage be taken away by a “friendly” large American company, in a thinly veiled challenge to Google [Snip] We won’t let ourselves be stripped of our heritage to the benefit of a big company, no ...
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• South Asian Oral History Archive Goes Online

  
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  From the News Story: The oral history archive, held at Cambridge University, features more than 300 recordings, including first-hand accounts of meetings with Mahatma Gandhi and testimonies by freedom fighters whose terrorist acts aimed to force an end to British rule. Alongside the campaigners, freedom-fighters ...
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• A Profile of Dr. Gloriana St. Clair, Dean of Carnegie-Mellon University Libraries

  
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  Note: For some reason the actual page is not online as we organize this post. At this time we are linking to a cached copy of the page. From the Profile: Dean of Carnegie Mellon University’s libraries since 1998, Dr. St. Clair this year was named academic-research librarian of the year by the national ...
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• Free! Access to Footnote.com’s World War II Document Collections for the Month of December

  
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  From the Announcement: In honor of Pearl Harbor Day, Footnote.com announced today that they will make the largest interactive WWII collection on the web including the Interactive USS Arizona Memorial free to the public during December [then they once again become accessible with a Footnote.com subscription. ...
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• Resources of the Week: A Never Ending “Virtual Stream” of Digitized Text

  
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  Resources of the Week: 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 ...
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• No More License Plates: Mo. prison inmates transcribe books for the blind

  
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  From the Article: One of the largest prison industries at Jefferson County Correctional Center has nothing to do with license plates or making furniture. More than 100 inmates – many of them certified through the Library of Congress – spend most of their days transcribing books and documents for the blind. ...
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• Berlin Plans Response to Google Books Project

  
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  From the Article: The German Cabinet agreed Wednesday to a plan that would fund the digitization of books, pictures, sculptures, notes, music and films and make them available on the Internet. Culture Minister Bernd Neumann called the project a “quantum leap into the world of digital information. The project, ...
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• New: Carnegie Mellon and Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Unveil Andrew Carnegie Collection Online

  
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  From the Announcement: Carnegie Mellon University Libraries and the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh have created a joint digital archive of Andrew Carnegie materials on the Web at http://diva.library.cmu.edu/carnegie/ . Integrating five physical collections in one searchable full text resource, the site ...
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• A Bit More from Robert Darnton on the Future of Books

  
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  We’ve posted a lot recently by and about Robert Darnton. Info about his new book, audio interviews and several essays (including one from last week) about Google and digitization. Today, in the Harvard Gazette (a paper from the Harvard Public Affairs Office), Darnton speaks a bit more about books. The brief ...
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• Analysis: Google Books Settlement 2.0: Evaluating Censorship

  
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  Fred von Lohmann writes: As we’ve explained in earlier posts, when it comes to evaluating the proposed Google Books settlement, the principal potential benefit to the public (increased access to books online) must be weighed against the potential drawbacks ( impediments to competition, inadequate protection ...
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• New Online Collection from ProQuest Creates Access to Full-Colour 15th and 16th Century European Books

  
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  From the Announcement: ProQuest is extending its famous Early English Books Online (EEBO) digitisation program into continental Europe, beginning with a project featuring holdings from the Danish Royal Library’s National Collection. To be launched at the end of 2009, the online resource will comprise ...
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• Amazon.com Fails to Get Judge to Reject Google Pact

  
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  From the Bloomberg Story: Amazon.com Inc., the world’s largest online retailer, failed to persuade a federal judge to withdraw his preliminary approval of a settlement between Google Inc. and groups of authors and publishers over a digital book library. U.S. District Judge Denny Chin in New York yesterday ...
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• Robotic Book Digitization Testing Underway at George Washington

  
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  From the Blog Post: The university announced Tuesday that it will use an automated system to digitize rare Middle Eastern texts from its own library and from that of Georgetown University. Library staffers will digitize hundreds of works over the next two years, and when the project is completed, they will examine ...
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• Theatre and Drama in Shakespeare’s Age Goes Digital

  
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  From the Announcement: The first stage of a project aiming to create the world’s single most important digital archive on early modern English theatre has been completed. Experts from King’s College London and the University of Reading are currently making the largest collection of material on professional ...
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• Library and Archives Canada Now Digitizing Microforms

  
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  From the Web Site: Numerous documents belonging to the Library and Archives Canada collection have been copied to microfiche and microfilm. Some items from this collection are being digitized for access over the Internet. These digitized microforms are available on the Browse by Title page. Please note that this ...
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• Science: Britain’s Royal Society Puts Rare Scientific Manuscripts Online via “Trailblazing” Web Site

  
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  Access New Trailblazing Web Site From an AFP Article: Historic manuscripts by Sir Isaac Newton, Benjamin Franklin and other ground-breaking scientists will be published online for the first time, Britain’s Royal Society said Monday. The society, the world’s oldest scientific institution, will release ...
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• Digitization: French University Brings Manuscripts of Stendhal Into the 21st Century

  
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  From the Article: …Marie-Henri Beyle, or Stendhal as he came to be known, has become the latest of France’s literary giants to be dragged into the 21st century courtesy of painstaking research and cutting-edge digital technology. A new website launched by the Stendhal University of Grenoble and the city’s ...
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