Google Books and the library catalog

Recently, libraries have started to add Google Book search results to their catalog. This is a good thing, in my opinion. I’m not going to get into the copyright debate on whether Google should be scanning books that are not in the public domain. I am, however, going to suggest that the [...]

All libraries don’t use Google Books

A recent story in the New York Times describes how some libraries are choosing not to take Google up on an offer to digitize the books of their collection. The most common restriction is that a book scanned by Google (or Microsoft) cannot be found via any other search service. This, of course, [...]