Archive for the ‘Libraries’ Category
Friday, March 13th, 2009
In a recent posting at O'Reilly Radar, Linda Stone discusses recent comments by Brewster Kahle and Robert Darnton on the Google Book Search Settlement. This is especially valuable for its talk about the orphan books problem, discussed by Kahle, as Stone reports, and in comments by Thomas Lord and Tim ...
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Friday, February 6th, 2009
In a recent NY Times article that I blogged on, Dan Clancy, the engineering director for Google book search, is cited as saying "every month users view at least 10 pages of more than half of the one million out-of-copyright books that Google has scanned into its servers." Remarkably, this ...
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Wednesday, February 4th, 2009
This article is generally unremarkable, although it does have some good quotes from prominent players. Otherwise, just another article in NY Times on Google Books. But it has two notable features -- The first is the quote from Google's Dan Clancy, in the second paragraph, stating a remarkably high volume ...
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Tuesday, October 21st, 2008
In the last year, we've begun to include the copyright status of pictures on Hardin MD pages. We have especially done this to show which pictures are not under copyright and are therefore free to copy.
Recently Peter Brantley suggested that libraries should make it easy for users to find public ...
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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
University of Utah has long been a pioneer in the digitization of medical visual resources, under the leadership of the Eccles Health Sciences library. Utah is especially notable for the wide variety of its resources, with strong collections in several basic biomedical and clinical areas.
Most of the Eccles digital image ...
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Thursday, July 24th, 2008
The Digital Library Collections at Yale Medical Library are notable for several reasons, especially the apparent emphasis that's being given to the effort by the library's administration -- The digital collections section of their website is featured prominently on all of the Collections pages on their site, as shown below.
Yale ...
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Friday, July 18th, 2008
New York Public Library is a rich source of digital resources, both text and images. This is especially interesting because they have done an excellent job in making connections from the library catalog (CATNYP) to digitized resources.
Because NYPL is an active participant in Google Books, their recent text digitization efforts ...
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