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Posted by Philippe Colombet, Strategic Partnership Development Manager, Google Book Search, France As a native of Lyon, France, I often visited the Municipal Library of Lyon during my student days. I was always impressed by the building itself, and of course by the books that the library tower housed. I never imagined what technology could make it possible for anyone to access those books like I could....
A little-known nifty thing about Google Books is that books already digitized via GB, whether in copyright or not, can be made available to students with visual disabilities. More inside scoop on the MBooks project at the BLT blog and at the MBooks accessibility page. We now have a system in place for students with visual [...]
Published online 23 July 2008 | Nature 454, 381 (2008) | doi:10.1038/454381d News in BriefGoogle Books expands its non-English resourcesDigital libraries often rely on English text.J. SULLIVAN/GETTY IMAGESThe municipal library of Lyon, which holds France's second largest collection of books, going back centuries, has become the first French library to join forces with Google.The Google Books Library...
A profile is (says OED) “a short biographical sketch or character study, esp. of a public figure.” But the National Library of Medicine’s Profiles in Science site is more than a series of profiles—it’s also a potentially useful and searchable online collection of documents and iconographic material relating to “several prominent twentieth-century American biomedical scientists.” Unfortunately, the...
Ethan Zuckerman writes: Under US law, pretty much anything you write down is copyrighted. Scrawl an original note on a napkin and it’s protected until 70 years after your death. Note: None of this post should be taken as criticism of Zuckerman. I’m just using his sentence as a foil. He is a great blogger, the above [...]
Private investigator explains how he can find almost anything out about anyone using the Internet, cell phones, cameras and video cameras in a world where privacy is just as good as dead.
Private investigator explains how he can find almost anything out about anyone using the Internet, cell phones, cameras, and video cameras in a world where privacy is just as good as dead.
General Electric, the venerable multinational that was founded in 1878 in New Jersey, have at their core a hugely sophisticated enterprise collaboration system that is arguably the largest in the world. I was able to see Dr Sukh Grewal, Manager of GE's 'SupportCentral' collaboration...
Could Google Monopolize Human Knowledge? By GREGORY M. LAMB, ABC News (Jul 12) "As Microsoft Backs Away From Digitizing Old Texts, Some Worry One Source Could Privatize It All" ""I wouldn't say Google is 100 percent of the digital book...
It's time for second-quarter newspaper earnings reports, with Gannett leading off Wednesday, with the long tale of woe to follow. Given the many newspaper staff cutbacks, which I thought might include the investor relations people, I've put together a few boilerplate remarks that I hope are helpful. Good morning. Let me say I’m glad that the few remaining financial analysts covering the industry want...
Earlier we ran Google’s privatization of knowledge: Do-no-evil company said to control almost 90 percent of digibook world, my post citing media expert Siva Vaidhyanathan’s concerns. Now, speaking unofficially, a Google staffer outside the book-scanning operation has replied to me. I like that. I wish Amazon employees would do the same when I gripe about [...]
By Anonymous Security, administrative/ERP information systems, and funding IT, respectively, are the three top issues in terms of strategic importance facing EDUCAUSE member institutions, according to the OCLC's 2008 EDUCAUSE survey.
csmonitor.com: The field narrows for e-books As Microsoft backs away from digitizing old texts, some worry that a single company could privatize world knowledge. By Gregory M. Lamb | Staff Writer for The Christian Science Monitor / July 11, 2008 edition Cambridge, Mass. Should a single company be left in charge of putting all of the world’s books online? An impressive list of world-class libraries...
Foldable E-Reader Launching in Europe This Fall, U.S. in '09 The New York Times takes a look at the Readius foldable e-reader: ... the Readius, designed mainly for reading...
