Thanks go out to batwrangler for sending me this ( Read more... )

Kes: And yes, the pdf is accessible ( Read more... )

Kes: Some interesting read-between-the-lines material here: consider what are the possibilities for the convergence of commercial business and academic scholarship? what are the implications of Amazon.com sponsoring a conference on library services and digital networks; what is a "Director of Bibliographic Control"?? (okay, that last one scares me ( Read more... )

Kes: Interesting questions re internal infrastructure and whether university press texts are suited to the search-based model, and this occurs while a thread about contemporary scholarly standards for online texts is happening on the Book People mailing list ( Read more... )

While checking out ( Read more... )

Kes: This is a commentary on the series of articles which begins with ( Read more... )

found in the Liblicense-L List Archives (Liblicense: Licensing Digital Information ( Read more... )

Kes: From the Book People mailing list, this post which not only links to a beta of a subject broser for the Online Books page (a megasite for online etexts and ebooks), but it also highlights some of the issues in both book cataloguing and online searching ( Read more... )

http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2006/01/the_long_snout.htmlRead more... )

Two recent posts from the Book People mailing list, the first on Yahoo's new online library project, the second a collection of resources and a summary of the Google/Authors Guild battle over copyright ( Read more... )