Thompson Reuters Lawsuit Against Zotero Creators Dismissed
Reported by Zotero co-director Sean Takats, tweeted by CHNM director Dan Cohen, and noted on DLTJ by Rick, Thomson-Reuters' lawsuit against George Mason Univ...
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Online Editions of Out-of-Print Books Result from Library/Press Partnership at Univ of Pittsburgh
Late last month, the University of Pittsburgh Press and Library System announced a joint effort to revive 500 titles with online and print-on demand access. ...
Interesting Bits in the Univ of Michigan Amendment to Google Book Search Agreement
On Tuesday, the University of Michigan and Google executed an amendment to the original agreement that started Google's efforts to create a collection of sca...
OCLC Review Board Recommends the Withdraw of Proposed Policy; Advocates for an Open Process
Earlier today, OCLC posted the recording [Flash] and presentation slides [PDF] from Jennifer Younger's presentation to the Members Council updating them on t...
Use of JPEG2000 for Broadcast Video Transmission
Although my day-to-day work takes me farther away from working with digital collections in general and JPEG2000 specifically, I still have a Google News sear...
At the Intersection of the OCLC Records Use Policy and the WorldCat Local Cloud-based Library Management Service
Last Friday, Andrew Pace (Executive Director of Networked Library Services for OCLC) was interviewed by Richard Wallis of Talis on OCLC's recent announcement...
OCLC Record Use Policy Issue Coming to a Head
In roughly a week, the OCLC membership through the Members Council will hear of the preliminary findings from the Review Board of Shared Data Creation and St...
Google Search Engine Adds Support for RDFa, Or Do They?
Via a post and an interview on the O'Reilly Radar blog, Google announced limited support for parsing RDFa statements and microformat properties in web page H...
Summary of Recent Google Book Search Settlement Activities
Today was to be the deadline for objecting to, opting out of, and/or filing briefs with the court on the Google Book Search Settlement. That was the plan, a...
Library Associations File Amicus Brief for Google Book Search Settlement
The American Library Association (through the Association's Washington Office and the Association of College and Research Libraries Division) and the Associa...
Tweaking the New FriendFeed Interface
FriendFeed went live yesterday with changes to the user interface and back-end systems. The changes were moderately positive, taken as a whole, but there ar...
OCLC’s WorldCat Local “Quick Start”
Last week, OCLC announced a "strategy to move library management services to Web scale." With this move, OCLC is rebranding "WorldCat Local" to include funct...