History buffs may want to rethink their plans for the three-day weekend, and even people with only a slight interest in the subject should get ready to make a few mouse clicks. The Library of Congress and Flickr have teamed up to introduce folks to a huge collection of photos, with most of the images dating back to between 1935 and 1943.
Library Groups Ask Judge To Monitor Google Book Search Settlement
Three major library groups have filed comments with the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York for the judge to consider in his ruling on the proposed Google Book Search Settlement.
The American Library Association (ALA), the Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) and the Association of Research Libraries, are asking the judge to "exercise vigorous oversight" while ruling on the Google Book Search Settlement.
Library Of Congress Creates YouTube Channel
The Library of Congress sounds like an old, creaky thing, and sure enough, it was established in 1800. But today, the Library continued a Web 2.0 push by making about 75 video clips available for viewing on YouTube.
Library Of Congress Pleased With Flickr Experiment
Although this fact isn’t likely to earn Yahoo a government bailout, it seems that Flickr can count the Library of Congress among its fans. An experiment the Library was conducting has turned out far better than anyone expected.
YouTube Enhances Embedded Search and Audio Library
YouTube has a couple of new things going on worth noting. First off, if you nave not noticed by now, embedded YouTube videos now carry a search box at the top. This only appears when you mouseover the top portion of the video, and disappears when you move away.
Google Library Partners Making Their Own Database
A group of libraries that are participating in the Google Books Library Project want to make sure that their work lives on in case Google doesn’t. They’re forming a backup database of digitized books in case Google should go out of business in the future (insert joke or snide comment here). The database is called HathiTrust.
Patrons Visit Porn Sites On Dallas Library Computers
City officials in Dallas said they will examine ways to restrict access to pornographic Web sites on public library computers in response to a newspaper study that found the viewing of inappropriate material to occur frequently.
Searchles Adds To Video Library
Searchles, a social search platform has added to its video indexing to display embeds from video sites Metacafe, Liveleak, Veoh and CollegeHumor.
Cornell University Joins Google Library Project
Attending Cornell University as an undergrad will cost you around $17,000 per semester. But if you just want to look through the school’s libraries, it’s free – some of their content will become available to everyone, thanks to an arrangement with Google’s Library Project.
Google Library Project Gets Japanese Partner
For a while there, Google was gaining partners for its Books Library Project on what seemed like a daily basis. That rush (appears to have) stopped, but now one more school has signed up: Japan’s Keio University.