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Thursday, January 05, 2012
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Class Action Filed in Google Books Case
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by George H. Pike
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The long-delayed lawsuit over the Google Book project took a significant step toward court action and potentially farther away from a settlement with the filing of a motion for Class Certification by The Authors Guild and several individual authors. With the filing, the authors are asking the court to move the case forward as a class action lawsuit, with the guild and authors representing a class of thousands or more individual authors. This could increase the possibility of significant damages against Google if they are found to have infringed on the authors' copyrights. Google is expected to oppose the motion to certify the class and is also expected to ask the court to dismiss the case outright.
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Alexander Street Press Launches Two New Collections
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Alexander Street Press announced the launch of two new collections: Classical Scores Library: Volume II, the first online score collection for libraries composed mostly of in-copyright classical scores from major composers; and Anthropology Online, a comprehensive resource that at completion will contain more than 100,000 pages of written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies from major archives around the world, many of which were previously unpublished.
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NewspaperDirect Introduces PressReader 3 for iPad
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NewspaperDirect introduced new PressReader 3 for iPad, which debuts SmartFlow newspaper presentation technology. PressReader 3.0 takes advantage of the power of the iPad2 running iOS5 to deliver a smooth and natural browsing and reading experience. With PressReader 3.0, users can now choose to read their favorite publications using SmartFlow, a horizontal news-reading feature that is exclusive to PressReader.
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EOS International Debuts Entry-Level ILS Product: EOS.Web Essentials
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EOS International announced EOS.Web Essentials, an entry-level product for small libraries and solo librarians. It is a fully web-based system, built on Microsoft .NET technology and the SQL Server relational database. EOS.Web Essentials is a scalable, modular system that can grow with you as your needs change. The software modules include OPAC Discovery, Cataloging, and one additional foundation module: (Circulation, Serials, Acquisitions, or Z39.50 server) at a price that meets a library's budget requirements.
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Review of 2011 and Trends Watch 2012
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by Paula J. Hane
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What will you remember from 2011? Techies will no doubt focus on the iPad 2, iPhone 4S, the Kindle Fire, and the rest of the new Kindle family, and all the new apps for smartphones. Folks in the information industry will likely remember 2011 as one of adapting new technologies and testing viable business models for the new emerging information landscape. Librarians will likely remember it as a year of intense pressure to squeeze more eresources and services from their (shrinking) budgets.
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