Archive for the 'Google Books' Category
Alfred Kazins Winesburg, Ohio
January 30th, 2008Paper Cuts - “Seriously, though, has anyone ever found a map of a fictional location on Google Book Search?”
(Thanks Edana)
What ever happened to: Google Librarian Central?
January 8th, 2008Phil Bradley asks a great question.
6 months without a blog post. I’m not surprised. I still believe that Google buttered up librarians to gain access to their mass collection of books so they could digitize them. Then again, I think Dick Cheney burned down his own office last month to destroy evidence. [...]
Columbia University Joins Google Book Search
December 13th, 2007Read the FAQ - (via)
Hands Off, Google
December 6th, 2007Literally.
More on Book Scanning
October 23rd, 2007Shaun Mullen - “I have more than a passing acquaintance with the question of whether electronic media will replace books because of my day job in a rare book and manuscript library that sits within a larger library with nearly 3 million bound volumes and millions of electronic resources.”
Heck No, We Won’t Go
October 20th, 2007Katie Hafner - “Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they were put off by restrictions these companies wanted to place on the new digital collections.”
Google Book Search May Get Boost
October 12th, 2007Reuters - “Random House, the world’s biggest book publisher, is considering joining a book-search project run by Google, once considered an arch-enemy by the paper publishing industry.” (via)
Review of MyLibrary
October 6th, 2007The Google one. Phil Bradley takes a look.
Google Book Search Enhanced
September 6th, 2007Google Book Search - “With the launch of the My Library feature in Book Search, I can create my own customized library online, and quickly search my collection to figure out which book I’m looking for. Once it’s created, I can share my library with my friends and see what’s in their collections.”
More to Books than Google Books
August 29th, 2007Michael Lieberman discusses Paul Duguid’s piece published in First Monday.