Issues in Scholarly Communication is a newsletter produced by Paula Kaufman, University Librarian and Dean of Libraries, for the Illinois community. Entries from 2001-2005 newsletter are available.
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Google officials are on a press tour trying to clarify details of the company's controversial library-scanning project. Jim Gerber, director of content partnerships at Google, and Nathan Tyler, a public relations manager, stopped by The Chronicle's office today to present a PowerPoint presentation about their projects and to answer questions. They compared the vast, full-text index of millions of books that Google is building to a library card catalog -- a finding tool to locate the right book rather than a library of its own. "It's a more powerful version of the card catalog," said Mr. Gerber. The Chronicle Wired Campus Blog 10/14/05 http://wiredcampus.chronicle.com/2005/10/google_says_its.html">
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