While we’ve seen lots of coverage of the Google Book Search project and the related activities, there’s been a dearth of inside information about the arrangements between Google and the participating libraries. Today the Chronicle of Higher Education offers an article (by Scott Carlson) that will give academic librarians a bit more insight into that [...]

In a recent post, Barbara pulled out this quote from Paul Courant’s article “Scholarship and Academic Libraries (and their kin) in the World of Google,” Collaboration, across time and space, is the fundamental method of scholarship, and without it we can do nothing of value. Hmm, what about the solitary researcher who works tirelessly but [...]

Well, those of us who submitted proposals for papers and panel sessions for the ACRL 13th National Conference in Baltimore (Mar. 31, 2007 – April 1, 2007) learned the fate of our proposals last Friday. I had previously reported on the number of proposals submitted for the number of slots available – and the odds [...]

Now That You’re Finally Retiring When it’s time for me to retire, in, oh, 20 years or so, I hope some young whippersnapper librarian will ask me what the meaning of librarianship is. Well, if it evers happens I hope I can come up with some good advice like David Bishop did for this brief [...]

Two worthwhile articles on the potential impact of digitizing books – and the challenge Google has posed to concepts of copyright and fair use – are well worth a read. The Washington Post presents the Google position – isn’t it a great idea to digitize all books so they can be discovered? Gee, whiz! And [...]