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Author: jessamyn
holy freaking CRAP! good news about public domain futures
This is great news, says Ryan [and me]. Though come on, how secret is it if it’s in the Times?
Google has embarked on an ambitious secret effort known as Project Ocean, according to a person involved with the operation. With the cooperation of Stanford University, the company now plans to digitize the entire collection of the vast Stanford Library published before 1923, which is no longer limited by copyright restrictions.
Stanford withdraws from ARL
Stanford, you might recall, made the press a few days back for withdrawing from ARL.
ARL on fair use and electronic reserves
Searching for Stanford and ARL to try to get some more info on this story [a “shocker” says Library Journal] I came up with this nifty little document about applying Fair Use to the development of electronic reserves.
your library, online
Technical services librarian Janet Rubenking wrote a useful column for PC Magazine about online databases, the type that would be connected to a library web site.[thanks carol]