BIG NEWS IN DIGITIZATION....
Microsoft announced today that it would shut down its Live Search Books and Live Search Academic programs, which have digitized 750,000 books and indexed 80 million journal articles. For more information read the Chronical of Higher Education article, Microsoft Shuts Book Digitizing Project.
OCLC and Google will exchange data, link digitized books to WorldCat. On May 19th, they signed an agreement to exchange data which will facilitate the discovery of library collections through Google searches. Under terms of the agreement, OCLC member libraries participating in the Google Book Search program, which will make the full text of more than one million books searchable, may share their WorldCat-derived MARC records with Google to better facilitate discovery of library collections through Google. Google will link from Google Book Search to WorldCat.org, which will drive traffic to library OPACs and other library resources. Google will share data and links to digitized books with OCLC, which will make it possible for OCLC to represent the digitized collections of OCLC member libraries in WorldCat. More information can be found in the press release.
Monday, May 26, 2008
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hardly that surprising. Nobody was using the thing. I wonder how much of it they were hoping to integrate with Yahoo anyway.
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