Library Gazette

The Google Books settlement stemmed from lawsuits related to the Google Books digitization project. The original settlement from October 2008 has seen alot of opinion and criticism in the last year. Below is a short list of sites that cover the developments:

1. Google Books Settlement page
2. ZSR Library blog entries discussing the settlement
3. Timeline of developments on Cnet
4. The EU perspective on Google Books
5. NyTimes coverage
6. Editorial by Sergey Brin

In teaching teaching we will discuss some possible uses of Google Books as a teaching topic in Information Literacy courses. Some ideas for using this topic to guide class include:

1. Doing research on current events
2. Evaluating ‘news’ type resources on websites (for example comparing Cnet and Reuters coverage)
3. Discussion of Copyright issues surrounding digitization

Today’s Emerging Tech Talk was on the Google Books Settlement with a brief introduction to the Life Magazine Photo Archive that is now available through Google.

I gave an image heavy presentation, so here is the bit about the Life (with extra notes slides):

If you’re interested in searching for images, you can go to the LIFE photo archive or include “source:life” in a regular Google Search.

And here is the bit about the Google Books Settlement (with extra notes slides):

If this is exciting to you, here are places to go for more information:

• Google Settlement Page
• Association of American Publishers
• Author’s Guild
• ARL Paper (PDF)
• My Delicious Links on the topic