Archive for the ‘Library of Congress’ Category

Marybeth Peters, Google & the Copyright Mess

Friday, September 11th, 2009

Marybeth Peters, head of the US Copyright Office (part of the Library of Congress), said this in her testimony before Congress yesterday: The Copyright Office has been following the Google Library Project since 2003 with great interest. We first learned about it when Google approached the Library of Congress, seeking to ...

Google Book Search & the Library of Congress

Friday, June 19th, 2009

Why is the Library of Congress not more involved in discussions of Google Book Search and the impending Settlement? Google searching finds virtually no evidence that LC has had any voice at all in the recent flurry of talk on this. For example, these Google web searches pull up only ...

IT at Library of Congress : Inspector General highly critical

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Why is this not being more widely reported?! Library of Congress Inspector General Karl Shornagel's 60-page PDF report, as far as I can find, has been linked only in two short postings in non-library blogs, and in a few Twitter tweets, since Schornagel reported to the House Administration Committee on ...