Google’s started a blog about its Book Search project. Hopefully this will help remedy a lot of the secrecy surrounding the inner workings, agreements with libraries, and other discussions about the project. However, notice that they’ve turned off the comments…
Comments closedHere’s another blog I just ran across via Library Stuff: The Reflective Librarian. Good reading. I think nothing of adding to my poor, creaking aggregator.
Update: And yet another. Wow. Here’s This Week in LibraryBlogLand.
Comments closedIt’s been such a busy week! The fact that tomorrow’s Friday is almost sustaining me at this point.
Anway, I hope to have finished the rebuttal to the “Changing Nature of the Catalog” report (see yesterday’s post) by tonight. So far, all I can say is “Wow.” There’s just a little bit of anger fueling this thing. Not that Mann doesn’t make some good point, and not that Calhoun’s article isn’t flawed in some ways… but WOW. (More on this later.)
In the mean time, here are the cool things I’ve found recently: