From the News Release:

The American Library Association (ALA), the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) today submitted a supplemental filing with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York overseeing the proposed Google Book Search settlement to address developments that have occurred since the groups submitted their filing on May 4.

While the library associations’ position has not changed since their initial filing, the groups believe that recent activity, such as an amended agreement reached between Google and the University of Michigan, the University of Texas-Austin and the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Google’s recent public statement regarding privacy, and the library associations’ communication with the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) should be brought to the court’s attention. In their supplemental filing, the library associations call upon the court to address concerns with pricing review, to direct Google to provide more detail on privacy issues, and to broaden representation on the Books Rights Registry.

+ Access the Supplemental Filing (PDF)

+ Access the May 4th Filing (PDF)

Source: American Library Association Washington Office
Hat Tip: @misseli

See Also: Paula Hane’s: “Anti Google Book Settlement Organizations Band Together in Open Book Alliance”
The New York Library Association and Special Libraries Association are members of the Open Book Alliance.

From the Article:

Google Inc’s plan to digitize millions of books would violate German copyright law and the country’s privacy protections for Internet users, the German government said in a U.S. court filing.

Germany opposes a proposed settlement, which Google reached with the Authors Guild and Association of American Publishers Inc among others in October 2008, because Google could digitize books by German authors without their consent, according to filing dated Monday.

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Wichard also noted clashes between Google’s plans and German requirements that Internet users’ privacy be ensured.

“By failing to ensure similar or adequate privacy protections, the settlement violates well-established national and international privacy laws,” Wichard wrote.

Here’s the full text of the filing via Justia

Source: Reuters

This Onion News Network video story discusses something new from Google. (-:

Access the Video Clip Here

Source: The Onion

From the Post:

In a relatively short time, the EPEAT system (Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool) has become the green standard for computer products in the U.S. And now the rating program — which ranks PCs and displays based on 51 environmental criteria and compiles the information into a searchable database — is expanding its reach internationally.

With the expansion, buyers in the U.S., Canada, Europe, China, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil and Mexico will be able to assess products based on environmental performance in their country.

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EPEAT’s registry features roughly 1,300 products and more than 30 manufacturers. Omelchuck said more than $60 billion worth of purchase contracts now require that the products be EPEAT-registered. U.S. federal agencies are required to buy EPEAT-registered products for at least 95 percent of their needs.

Direct to EPEAT Database

Source: Reuters

From the Announcement:

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) today awarded 33 institutions Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program grants totaling $20.4 million. With these grants, library students and staff will assist very young children in achieving early literacy; support libraries in rural communities; increase the number of school library media specialists; create more librarians with a specialty in government information services; increase diversity in the library workforce; and strengthen the workforce to better meet the needs of users of all types of libraries. To see a list of awardees and descriptions of how they intend to use their grants, please click here.

“The driving force behind any successful library is a staff of educated and dedicated library professionals,” said Anne-Imelda Radice, Director of IMLS. “It is IMLS’s great pleasure to announce the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program awards which will help support the next generation of library professionals in their academic and community-building endeavors.”

Source: Institute of Museum and Library Services

Just a quick note to remind you that Gary, Shirl, and the rest of the VIP and Free Pint teams will be at the SLA Annual Conference in Washington DC beginning on Sunday, June 14th. Please stop by our table top booth and say hello. We’re looking forward to visiting with you. Thanks. Also be sure to RSVP to let us know your interest, and we’ll send you a free copy of the FreePint Special Report on SLA 2009 upon publication.

+ Google Confirms & Talks About Expanded Local Results (via SEL)

From the Wall Street Journal Article:

Life.com, a joint venture of Life publisher Time Inc., a unit of Time Warner, and Getty Images, is opening its doors today to let Web users scan 7 million images from the magazine, many of which have never appeared in print. The site also boasts thousands of new daily news photos from Getty, the photo service whose work appears in many newspapers and Web sites.

In addition to photos of breaking news events, the Life.com editors have created thousands of photo groupings — a slideshow of Hawaiian beaches through the decades, or baseball players with odd names, or memorable war photos — that will change at least once a day.

Photos are arranged around five channels: news, celebrity, animals, travel and sports, based on search patterns and on advertiser-friendly categories. The celebrity tier of photos is expected to appeal more to advertisers looking for female consumers, for example.

Source: Wall Street Journal
Hat Tip: LS

See Also: Don’t Forget the Google Images offers millions of photos from Life’s historical archive. To access them in a rapid manner simply enter source:life and your keywords into the Google Images search box. Here’s an example.

We’re happy to report that you can now follow our posts on Twitter. We have two feeds at the moment:

1) Combined ResourceShelf and DocuTicker feed at http://www.twitter.com/resourceshelf.

2) DocuTicker ONLY feed at: http://www.twitter.com/docuticker.

We hope you find them useful, thanks again for all of your support, and make sure to tell your Twittering friends about the new feeds. (-:

Also, Gary and Shirl are doing the Facebook thing these days and would welcome RS and DT users as friends. Just hop on over here for Gary & here for Shirl and make the request.

Almost forgot, if you’re not a ‘Twitterer’ and prefer RSS, we also have RSS feeds available. DocuTicker RSS ||| ResourceShelf RSS

From the Article:

A standard for accessing the unstructured data that makes up an estimated 80 percent of data generated by enterprises has been ratified by the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS).

The Unstructured Information Management Architecture (UIMA) was developed by IBM Corp., which incorporates it in a number of products. The company has made the architecture available as an open-source technology to encourage development of interoperable analytics tools for unstructured text documents, including e-mails, blog entries, news feeds and notes, in addition to audio recordings, images and video.

According to OASIS, these types of unstructured data are the largest, most current and fastest-growing types of data and account for 80 percent of information generated by enterprises.

Source: GCN

From the Brief:

The Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), developed by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN), contains information about the official names for places, features, and areas in the 50 States, the District of Columbia, the territories and outlying areas of the United States, including Antarctica. It is the geographic names component of The National Map. The BGN maintains working relationships with State names authorities to cooperate in achieving the standardization of geographic names.

Source: USGS

From the “What’s New” page:

…includes a collection of the most frequently requested information on drinking water.

Direct to New Web Page

Source: Environmental Protection Agency

Direct to GreyText

GreyText is an inhouse archive of documents on grey literature. Over 125 documents are listed by first author followed by the title, source, date of publication and length in printed pages. Free access to the first page of each document is available for browsing. Also, in most cases the corresponding PowerPoint is available online[Free].

See Also: Documents from 2003-2008 are available in the OpenSIGLE Repository

Source: GreyNet

+ Canadian Court Apparently Decides That Private Facebook Profiles Aren’t Actually Private (via TechDirt)

+ Online Research: Zotero Moves Into the Cloud (via RWW)

From the Announcement:

UKSG has recently published new chapters of The E-Resources Management Handbook, its open access guide to the issues and challenges facing those in the information community.

Two of the new chapters follow the book’s original formula by providing analyses of specific areas of e-resource management. Louise Cole, Senior Information Advisor (Collections) at Kingston University gives up-to-date guidance for UK librarians relating to copyright in the digital age. Her chapter covers licences, digital rights management, sharing and adapting content, multimedia and open access. Jo Cross, Market Research Manager at Taylor & Francis, provides an introduction to impact factors that explains how they are calculated and what variables need to be considered when evaluating them.

An additional five new chapters take the form of interviews with thought leaders from the information community:
• Stephen Abram, Vice President, SirsiDynix
• Martin Marlow, Vice President, Publisher Business Development & Marketing, Ingram Digital
• Peter McCracken, Director of Research, Serials Solutions
• Jim Mouw, Assistant Director,Technical & Electronic Services, University of Chicago
• Alison Mudditt, Executive Vice President, Higher Education Group, SAGE
The interviews are designed to summarise the current state of scholarly communications while providing a broad range of insights into what the future may hold, from professionals with differing perspectives and comprehensive experience. They provide a milestone in the handbook’s evolution, and a benchmark against which future developments in e-resource management can be measured.

Read the New Chapters

Source: UKSG

+ Queen relaunches Royal website with Google map tracking her movements (via Daily Mail)

+ Microsoft Beefs Up Enterprise Search (via SEL)