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Searcher April 2007 Grogg & Ashmore	Google Book Search Libraries and Their Digital Copies Few things in the past decade have brought libraries and subsequent controversy into the mainstream media as much as the google book search library project.
Searcher February 2005 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - Round Up the Unusual Suspects! How could Google's plans to offer digitized book content of brick-and-mortar libraries affect the library world?
Information Today December 27, 2004 Barbara Quint	Google's Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions Librarians, academicians, journalists, information industry pundits, and real people continue to ring in with comments, concerns, quarrels, and commendations for Google's new library program. Here are some answers, too.
Information Today May 16, 2005 Barbara Quint	Library Collections Linked on Google Scholar for Free The Google Scholar project has responded to the complaints of many academic and research librarians by expanding its usefulness for campus-based users. Any library using OpenURLs and meeting Google Scholar's conditions can join the program.
Information Today December 20, 2004 Barbara Quint	Google and Research Libraries Launch Massive Digitization Project Google has launched a program with a number of research libraries which aims at ultimately scanning all the books in their collections. Could this mark the beginning of the end of brick-and-mortar libraries?
Searcher Nov/Dec 2003 Gary Price	Webmastry What Google teaches us that has nothing to do with searching
Search Engine Watch December 14, 2004 Gary Price	Google Partners with Oxford, Harvard & Others to Digitize Libraries Google is working closely with five new content partners on a massive scanning project that will bring millions of volumes of printed books into the Google Print database.
Searcher January 2004 Barbara Quint	Encyclopedia of the Future: "The Library" By the early years of the 21st century, the forces of technology began to press the information professional community to re-examine the basic infrastructure of service to clients and to consider centralizing national and international library resources...
D-Lib September 2005 Lavoie et al.	Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries As mass digitization programs become more common, many are likely to originate within the library community itself, rather than through external organizations like Google.
Information Today August 15, 2005 Barbara Quint	Google slows library project to accommodate publishers Publishers complain about copyright issues with Google's Print for Libraries program.
Information Today August 14, 2006 Barbara Quint	Google Book Search Adds Big, Brave Partner: The University of California The 100 libraries on the 10 campuses of the University of California - the largest research and academic library in the world - opened a composite 34 million book collection to Google.
Searcher October 2011 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - The Ideal Library In the best of all possible worlds, what would the best of all possible libraries look like? Who would it serve? What would it do?
InternetNews November 3, 2005 Tim Gray	Google Opens Library Doors to the World The first large scale collection of public domain books went live online today as part of search giant Google's plan to amass the world of letters on the Internet.
Searcher March 2008 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - Hey, OCLC! Got a Minute? The greatest reaction to the Working Group's report on bibliographic control is that the Library of Congress might have better things to do with its resources than serve as the primary cataloger for the libraries of the world.
Searcher June 2008 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - Oh, Pooh!! Commentary by the author on the utility, legal status, and future of Google Book Search.
Information Today May 22, 2008 Barbara Quint	OCLC Tightens Links to Google Book Search This week, OCLC signed an agreement confirming and increasing the links between OCLC's WorldCat.org free web service and Google Book Search.
D-Lib December 2004 Bonita Wilson	The Growth of Digital Content The future of libraries and librarians has been discussed for years within the digital library community. Increasing amounts of digital content available anywhere and anytime makes that discussion more relevant than ever.
InternetNews August 9, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Google Book Project Signs UC Pact Google's effort to index library books turned another page with the addition of the University of California to its Print Library Project.
Search Engine Watch November 22, 2005 Sullivan & Price	World Digital Library Project Announced, Backed by Library of Congress & Google The United States Library of Congress has announced the creation of the World Digital Library, a project that's also received its first $3 million in funding from Google.
D-Lib Jul/Aug 2011 Robert A. Schrier	Digital Librarianship & Social Media: the Digital Library as Conversation Facilitator One of the ways digital librarians can cultivate a broader awareness of their collections is through social networking.
Information Today August 29, 2005 Barbara Quint	CORRECTIONS: Google Print Not All I Said It Was Google does not supply publishers with e-books as part of the Google Print program, contrary to earlier reporting. Other errors in the Google Print reporting were also discovered.
InternetNews May 27, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Google Print Goes Live Google opened the door to its online library with the launch of Print.Google.Com, a book-specific search page.
InternetNews November 1, 2005 Tim Gray	Google Back in Book Business Google says it will resume scanning copyrighted books.
Searcher March 2007 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - To the Ozone and Beyond In the course of research for an article on the experiences of the libraries involved in Google Book Search, a story emerged.
Searcher October 2005 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - Apology How does Google Print contribute to the distribution of book literature?
Searcher October 2003 Marylaine Block	How Librarians Can Manage the Unintended Consequences of the Internet The unrestrained freedom of the Net has caused conservative organizations and staid, sober lawmakers to view libraries as pornography parlors and librarians as corrupters of youth. As a result, librarians have borne the brunt of an astonishing amount of ill-advised and unconstitutional legislation.
Searcher January 2006 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - The Home Guard Information professionals need to establish turf for the profession, to make it clear to patrons or potential patrons everywhere exactly what we do and why they cannot do without our services except at great personal risk.
Searcher January 2008 Ashmore & Grogg	The Race to the Shelf Continues Internet giants are in the middle of a modern-day space race: Who can scan the most and the best books in alliance with the biggest and brightest libraries in the U.S.
Information Today September 5, 2006 Barbara Quint	Google Opens Public Domain Books for Downloading, Michigan Launches MBooks Google has changed its policy and will now allow users to download full-image files of public domain books in its Google Book Search collection.
Information Today June 10, 2002 Barbara Quint	QuestionPoint Marks New Era in Virtual Reference QuestionPoint stems from an arrangement between the Library of Congress' Public Service Collections Directorate and OCLC to provide libraries with access to a growing collaborative network of reference librarians in the U.S. and around the world.
Information Today August 18, 2008	WebJunction Launches New Social Learning Site OCLC announced that WebJunction, the online learning community for librarians and library staff, has launched a new social and learning experience
D-Lib August 2007 Bonita Wilson	Book Digitization Options for Libraries Online bookseller Amazon plans to digitize thousands of books through agreements with university and public libraries. Amazon plans to sell hard copies of the digitized books on a print-on-demand basis.
Information Today October 9, 2006 Susanne Bjorner	Google Library Project Expands to Spain The Universidad Complutense Madrid has become the first library in continental Europe and in a non-English speaking country to join the 2-year-old Google Book Search program.
D-Lib September 2006 Choi & Rasmussen	What Is Needed to Educate Future Digital Librarians: A Study of Current Practice and Staffing Patterns in Academic and Research Libraries Digital libraries are the future of academic and research institutions, and digital professionals will be required to have more breadth and depth of knowledge and skills across the dimensions of traditional library knowledge, technology, and human relations.
Information Today November 2006 Mick O'Leary	Database Review: Google Book Search Has Far to Go Google Book Search is Google's grand project to create a universal full-text e-book library. Here are the details of how Book Search works.
Searcher January 2009 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - What's Next? Has the world of one giant and universal LIBRARY finally arrived? Stay tuned. This is an issue we have covered regularly and will continue to cover this year and beyond, I suspect.
InternetNews November 7, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Microsoft to Scan Brit Books Scanning the collection of the prestigious British Library is a big job - and Microsoft wants to do it.
Information Today July 16, 2006 Paula J. Hane	OCLC to Open WorldCat Searching to the World In a move designed to reach users outside library environments, OCLC is planning to launch a new destination site and downloadable search box for searching the content of libraries participating in WorldCat.
Searcher August 2007 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - A Great Idea!! The Google Custom Search Engine lets knowledgeable users identify the sites and/or search strategies that they know will retrieve high relevance, high quality content matching the interests of their user communities.
InternetNews November 22, 2005 Susan Kuchinskas	Google Gift to Help Digitize World The search giant donates $3 million to the Library of Congress to jumpstart the World Digital Library. Google would not be an exclusive vendor for that scanning project, and the resulting database would be open to indexing by other search engines.
Information Today February 11, 2002 Rebecca Lenzini	Washington's Governor Proposes Closing State Library to Save Money The governor's office in the state of Washington has proposed closing the Washington State Library by this October. This move is part of an effort to reduce overall state spending by more than $500 million to solve a $1.2 billion shortfall in Washington's biennial budget...
Information Today October 27, 2003 Barbara Quint	OCLC Project Opens WorldCat Records to Google OCLC has announced to its library members that it will begin testing the opening of WorldCat records to Google access. The project will extract a 2 million-record subset consisting of the most populare and widely-available books from the more than 53 million records in the database.
D-Lib September 2000	To the Editor Letters received in response to the story, Automated Digital Libraries: How Effectively Can Computers Be Used for the Skilled Tasks of Professional Librarianship?
Searcher June 2005 Barbara Quint	Searcher's Voice - Tithing Set aside a portion of each year's library budget to support the information system you want to have in the future.
Information Today November 12, 2015	OCLC Research Shares Patron Behavior Study Findings It offers an overview of user-behavior findings for librarians, information scientists, and library and information science students and researchers so they can plan for future user-centered library services.
Information Today February 6, 2014	3M Cloud Library Launches in Canada and Debuts Automation Tool 3M announced that the 3M Cloud Library ebook lending system from 3M Library Systems is now available in Canada.
Information Today April 15, 2014 Barbie E. Keiser	National Library Week 2014: Lives Change @ Your Library The United States has celebrated National Library Week during the second week of April (aka School Library Month) since 1958. This year, it's being celebrated April 13-19, with author Judy Blume serving as honorary chair.
Information Today June 30, 2011	Serials Solutions Developing New Web-Scale Management Solution The new Serials Solutions service will address the industry's fundamental shift to electronic content, while still supporting librarians' needs to manage their print and local collections.
IEEE Spectrum January 2013 Chris Thompson	Harvard's Alternative to Google Books Universities launch a digital public library which will archive every book in the public domain and offer them online to anyone. The library's prototype is expected to launch this year.
Information Today May 31, 2005 Barbara Quint	Google Library Project Hit by Copyright Challenge from University Presses Extending the Google Print program to the digitization of five of the world's largest university research libraries, including copyrighted as well as non-copyrighted material, would inevitably seem to lead to a challenge of copyright violation. Oddly enough, the challenge has come from the less commercial publishers--the nonprofit university presses.