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Peter E. Murray

Library technologist, open source advocate, striving to think globally while acting locally

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  • Revised Google Book Search Settlement from a Library Perspective

    Late, late in the day last Friday, the principle parties in the Google Book Search case submitted a revised settlement agreement agreement to the court. This post takes a look at the changes to the settlement from a library perspective. To keep this manageable, I'm not including discussion of library-oriented …

     Posted on  November 18, 2009
     and last updated November 19, 2009
     ·  11 minutes reading time
  • Google's Watching What We're Doing -- At Least In Aggregate

    OhioLINK Tweet for Adding Google Books links in the Central CatalogAn interesting thing happened at my place of work (OhioLINK) today. We recently added links to our central catalog pointing to manifestations in Google Books. The way it was decided to set it up, though, was to only point to Google Books if the full text was available. We tweeted …

     Posted on  August 26, 2009
     and last updated August 27, 2009
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Google Book Search Privacy, Orphan Works, and Monopoly

    A few weeks ago, a reporter at the Chronicle of Higher Education interviewed Adam Smith, Google's director of product management, about the Google Book Search settlement and posted the interview in audio form. The page isn't dated, but guessing from metadata in the URL it was somewhere around the publication …

     Posted on  June 29, 2009
     and last updated June 29, 2009
     ·  6 minutes reading time
  • EBSCO in Cahoots With Harvard Business Press

    A controversy is starting to pick up in the business librarian community -- primarily in the U.K. it would seem -- regarding the licensing demands of Harvard Business Press (HBP) for the inclusion of Harvard Business Review articles in EBSCOhost. HBP content in EBSCOhost carries a publisher-specific rider that says use …

     Posted on  June 28, 2009
     and last updated June 28, 2009
     ·  10 minutes reading time
  • 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 Association of Research Libraries filed a brief [PDF] with the court in support of the Google Book Search Settlement while asking the judge to "exercise vigorous oversight" over details the …

     Posted on  May 04, 2009
     and last updated May 05, 2009
     ·  8 minutes reading time
  • Intervention by IA Denied; Deadline for Objections Extended

    New York Judge Denny Chin recently issued two rulings in the Google Book Search settlement. In the first, he ' the request by the Internet Archive to intervene as a defendant in the lawsuit (and thus, presumably, be on firmer founding to guide aspects of the settlement). In his response, Judge …

     Posted on  April 29, 2009
     and last updated April 29, 2009
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • On How Physical and Electronic Differ for Library Materials

    I'm reading the notes from the Atlanta OLE Project regional workshop and right up at the top are these two statements that struck me as insightful. The first gets to the heart of how physical items in a library are different from digital items with respect to library service commitments …

     Posted on  March 12, 2009
     and last updated March 12, 2009
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • What Does the Google Book Settlement Mean for the Online Book Market?

    The blog post title is a serious question -- it is one that I need some help figuring out: What Does the Google Book Settlement Mean for the Online Book Market? There have been stories and speculation about how Google is going to turn the settlement for the class-action lawsuit against …

     Posted on  February 23, 2009
     and last updated February 24, 2009
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • H.R.801 Threatens Open Access Requirement for Gov't Funded Research

    The Alliance for Taxpayer Access called out the introduction of proposed legislation that would prohibit the federal government from requiring publication of federally-funded research under open access terms. This would not only reverse the NIH Public Access Policy but would also stop other federal agencies from following a similar course …

     Posted on  February 15, 2009
     and last updated February 16, 2009
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • OCLC Review Board's Blog

    There is a new page in the Record Use Policy area on the OCLC website with an invitation from Jennifer Younger, chair of the Review Board, inviting members of the community to send e-mail to reviewboard@oclc.org or to post public comments on the Review Board Online Feedback Forum …

     Posted on  February 10, 2009
     and last updated February 10, 2009
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • Members of the OCLC Review Board Announced

    OCLC announced late yesterday the members of the review board. In addition, they announced the establishment of an e-mail address for communicating with the review board (reviewboard@oclc.org).

    Members of the Review Board of Shared Data Creation and Stewardship are:

    • Christopher Cole (FEDLINK): Associate Director for Technical Services, National …
     Posted on  February 07, 2009
     and last updated February 08, 2009
     ·  2 minutes reading time
  • On the Role of WorldCat and -Please- Open Up the Discussion

    Nearly a week after it was posted, I came across a posting by Karen Calhoun of OCLC summarizing her impressions of the ALCTS Forum at Midwinter. I thought I had been closely watching the dialog around the policy, so I was surprised when I came across it. That makes me …

     Posted on  February 02, 2009
     and last updated February 02, 2009
     ·  3 minutes reading time
  • Correction Added to Guardian Story on OCLC Record Use Policy

    Last week, The Guardian newspaper in the U.K. published a story on the proposed OCLC record use policy and the controversy surrounding the proposal. As the first story on the controversy to reach the mainstream press, it spawned a flurry of discussion in the blogosphere.

    Yesterday The Guardian posted …

     Posted on  January 31, 2009
     and last updated January 02, 2018
     ·  1 minutes reading time
  • Further Consideration of OCLC Records Use Policy

    At ALA Midwinter, ALCTS sponsored a panel discussion about sharing library-created data inside and outside the library community, with a particular focus on cataloging data. I was honored to be ask to speak on the topic from the perspective of a consortial office. This is the second and final post …

     Posted on  January 28, 2009
     and last updated January 29, 2009
     ·  5 minutes reading time
  • Consideration of OCLC Records Use Policy

    At ALA Midwinter, ALCTS sponsored a panel discussion about sharing library-created data inside and outside the library community, with a particular focus on cataloging data. I was honored to be ask to speak on the topic from the perspective of a consortial office. This is the first in a series …

     Posted on  January 27, 2009
     and last updated January 28, 2009
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Preliminary Court Approval of Google Book Settlement; Final Approval Hearing Set

    The Associate Press reported on Monday evening that the court has given preliminary approval to the settlement negotiated between Google and book authors and publishers over the use of copyrighted materials in the Google Book Search Library project. In giving preliminary approval, Judge John E. Sprizzo authorized the publication of …

     Posted on  November 22, 2008
     and last updated November 23, 2008
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Google Book Search Settlement: Public Access Service

    One of the very relevant aspects of the Google Book Search Settlement Agreement to libraries is the provision that allows for free public access to the full text of books in public and academic libraries. The Notice of Settlement summary says: "Google will provide, on request, 'Public Access' licenses for …

     Posted on  November 11, 2008
     and last updated November 11, 2008
     ·  7 minutes reading time
  • Is OCLC's Change of WorldCat Record Use/Transfer Policy Related to the Google Book Search Agreement?

    Update

    On the Code4Lib IRC channel Thursday afternoon, Roy Tennant, Senior Program Officer at OCLC Programs and Research, said that there is absolutely no connection between the policy change and the Google Book Search settlement.

    The Original Post

    Two big and seemingly unrelated things came to light on Tuesday of …

     Posted on  October 30, 2008
     and last updated October 30, 2008
     ·  4 minutes reading time
  • Google Book Search Settlement: Reviewing the Notice of Settlement

    Beyond the public pronouncements of the Google Books Settlement ((See the bottom of this earlier post on DLTJ for a complete list)) are the documents that form the meat of the agreement. The full text of the proposed settlement agreement is 141 pages plus another 162 pages of appendices. The …

     Posted on  October 29, 2008
     and last updated October 29, 2008
     ·  24 minutes reading time
  • Google Book Search Settlement: Introduction, Public Announcements

    Announced today was a settlement between Google and the plaintiffs -- the Authors Guild, the Association of American Publishers and individual authors and publishers -- in the class action lawsuit about materials scanned for the Google Book Search application through the Google Book Search Library Project. This posting on DLTJ includes a …

     Posted on  October 28, 2008
     and last updated October 29, 2008
     ·  6 minutes reading time