Professional Reading Shelf
+ Live Blog Coverage of the Online Information Conference in London, UK
Thanks to the InfoToday Blog.
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Google Library Project
Source: SEW Blog
Legal Issues for Google Library Project in Europe
The Information World Review (IWR is a VNU publication) article: Google digitisation faces Euro legal challenge, reports on Google’s book digitisation project (the Google Library Project to be precise) facing some legal obstacles in Europe. Here it is in a nutshell, direct from the article:
“Google has acknowledged that it cannot digitise copyright material from European libraries, according to the Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers (ALPSP)”
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Information Industry–Elsevier
Source: IWR
Elsevier restructures and lays off 30 staff
“Scientific, technical and medical (STM) publisher Elsevier is restructuring itself, and will see 30 redundancies. The review of working practices will see the creation of five new business units, and aims to improve customer relationships between the publisher and its users.”
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Public Libraries–Theft
Source: Library Journal
Low-tech Responses Stem Major Thefts at MI Library
“Given that the library didn’t want to require staffers to handle the media, staffers adopted two solutions. One is to use a piece of laminate to cover the tag that had been peeling off. Also, the library started using permanent ink to identify the discs as library materials, and placing a 15-item limit on checkouts. The 4000 discs lost represent about one-sixth of the library’s 24,000-item collection of CDs and DVDs. Thefts have since plummeted.”

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