[Web4lib] Google Print NYPL Event November 17

[Reynolds, Bess]

For those of you on the east coast, tickets are now on sale for an event
at the New York Public Library on November 17.
http://smarttix.com/show.aspx?showCode=BAT2

"The Battle Over Books" co-sponsored by Wired Magazine and featuring :

Allan Adler, Association of American Publishers
Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine
David Drummond, Google
Paul LeClerc & David Ferriero, The New York Public Library
Lawrence Lessig, Stanford Law School
Nick Taylor, The Authors Guild 

Bess Reynolds
Technical Services Manager
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP


-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org
[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of K.G. Schneider
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 10:52 AM
To: 'Web4Lib'
Subject: RE: [Web4lib] Google Print

>  For the digitizing project, it seems a fair question to ask if Google
> Print
> fully exploits the existing catalog records for each book out of the
> cooperating libraries. They say a library spends as much money on an
> original catalog entry as they do to buy most books. So the manual
labor
> has
> already been paid for by the libraries themselves.
>  (Hmmm, another way in which Google may be getting an incredibly good
> deal.)

If they are using the human-generated metadata, this makes me wonder if
Google has a stake in humans continuing to produce this metadata? (Put
it
another way, would Google pay for cataloging?) 

If they aren't using it, and they create a system that works well
without
it, what does that say about the future of the ILS? (That's bordering on
a
rhetorical question...)

I bet they're using it to figure out how to mimic its function through
AI.

Karen G. Schneider
kgs at bluehighways.com

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