[Web4lib] Enhanced E-book Service

[Steve Cramer]

Most of our ebook packages have been providing fulltext searching for many
years. And some libraries have created versions of their federated search
that search all the ebook packages together. But yes, it would be nice to be
able to toss Google Books into the mix too.

--Steve
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Steve Cramer
Business & CARS Librarian
University of North Carolina at Greensboro
smcramer at uncg.edu , 336-256-0346
http://uncg.libguides.com/cramer


On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 8:57 AM, Cindy Harper <charper at colgate.edu> wrote:

> I've long thought that providing a secondary search in the library catalog
> of just the indexes would be useful - based on a Thomas Mann article that
> highlighted the importance of the index.  And I wondered how many of them
> would fit the fair-use rule of less than (what is it - 5%, 10%?).  Of
> course, it wouldn't be fair use because it wouldn't be spontaneous and one
> time only. I'm interested to hear that European copyright law may allow one
> to include the index in the library catalog - how would we get such a
> ruling
> in this country?
>
> Cindy Harper, Systems Librarian
> Colgate University Libraries
> charper at colgate.edu
> 315-228-7363
>
>
>
> On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 1:46 AM, Tim Spalding <tim at librarything.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Sorry. My point wasn't clear. The point wasn't that they should index
> > the indexes, but that indexes or page references alone are good
> > enough. It's nice to have the book right there, but the really
> > powerful thing is to FIND that obscure reference.
> >
> > Tim
> >
> > On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 12:47 AM, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se>
> wrote:
> > > On 10/14/2010 01:59 AM, Tim Spalding wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I wanted to find references to who read what Greek authors, and what
> > >> they thought about them. So I basically read through the *indexes* of
> > >> a few hundred relevant books—papers, biographies, histories, poetry,
> > >
> > > An index is just a list of facts, which is not a work of literature.
> > > In Europe, such lists are covered by 15 years of database rights,
> > > but every index published before 1990 should be possible for
> > > Google or Hathi to publish openly, worldwide.
> > >
> > > There can be arguments over the use of cover images, but the
> > > contents of title pages are already copied into library catalogs
> > > without respect to any copyright. I think the same should go
> > > for tables of content and indexes, and for legends to maps.
> > > There should be no need to obscure them with snippets.
> > >
> > >
> > > --
> > >  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
> > >  Aronsson Datateknik - http://aronsson.se
> > >
> > >
> > >
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