Google Book Settlement Rejected

U.S. Circuit Court Judge Denny Chin has rejected the $125 million settlement negotiated between the Authors Guild, the Association of America n Publishers and Google.  “New York Law School professor James Grimmelmann said he sees three scenarios: the parties could try to appeal Judge Chin’s ruling; they could redraft a new settlement, along the opt-in lines suggested by Chin; or, they could go back to litigation.”

Gotta Register

Gotta Register isn’t just a voter registration site. It serves as a powerful clearinghouse for voter information across the country — armed with pretty much everything you need to know to cast your ballot. It even automatically personalizes to the user’s location — so when you visit the site, you’ll see voter information for your state.

Google Books Settlement Delayed

Judge Chin did not rule due to “Voluminous materials have been submitted recurring themes” We will have to wait at least several weeks.Thorny Fairness Issues Delay Decision on Google Books Settlement

Google Book Settlement

I have attachment of the most recent settlement on Google books. It seems that books only published in the US are going to be covered. A deadline for orphan works to be claimed has also been set.
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Rappelling in the University of Kentucky Library

Google Books

Google Settlement

Who Should Control the Virtual Library?

Information is needed for people to complete even the most miniscule of tasks.  Our lives, both public and private, are steeped in it.  The need for it to be quality, accurate and accessible grows with each day. Everyone should be able to connect with quality analysis found in books, journals and other scholarly publications.  With access to it we are free to challenge oppressive forces and improve our lives personally.

America’s primary amendment is freedom of speech.  Freedom of the press is covered in the amendment as well.  Alfred D. Chandler argued that America’s first amendment shows just how important freedom of information is to everyone living in the United States. The free flow of information and information technologies remain paramount to the vibrant growth of the democratic spirit.  Railroads, the telegraph, radio, telephones, television, PC’s, and the internet are just a few information technologies that have improved the quality of our lives.

Moreover, the methods of communication must remain open to the largest amount of people possible.  If everyone has easy access to the data we need, our lives will continue to improve.  This is what the United States government has always understood: To ensure that the river of data flows freely information industries were subsidized and  over a hundred years later deregulated.

The google book settlement can mean many things. That a search engine makes available certain books to everyone who needs them is just one.  Is this a good thing?  There are some great ways that you can become involved in finding and answer to this very important question.  Yet, don’t take my word for it, see for yourselves.

http://radicalreference.info/nyc/salon/googlebooks

Update to this blog!

I have made the decision to return to school. I am working on a Doctorate in Information and Computer Science. After careful consideration, at this time, I think it is too much to teach and attend school.
I have decided to fulfill my academic obligations. Therefore, I will take some time off teaching. I hope to return to soon. I want to remind you, my students, that I will still be available via this site. If you need anything, letters of reference or contact info please let me know. I hope to return to teaching. You have all taught me so much and I am grateful.
I welcome this new stage, and all its challenges. Yet, I hold my experiences at ASA as very treasured ones.
I will continue contributing to this blog although, it will mostly be related to doctoral level research.
Try and smile even as this post is some sort of goodbye.
Take great care!

Review for Final Exam

The final exam will be open book and notes.

It will be held during your regularly scheduled class time on either
Wednesday January 21, 2009
Thursday January 22, 2009 or
Friday January 23, 2009

The exam will be two parts. Part one will be fill in the blank (10 questions).
Part two will be short answer. You will answer five questions in one to two sentences.

Attached to this post is the review sheet.

Any absent students will have to reschedule a time with me (requests should be made in writing).

Good luck!

LIB 100: Information Literacy

Professor Jaszczerski

Fall 2008

ASA:  The College for Excellence

Final Exam Review Sheet

 

Know the definitions for the following terms

·        Thesis

·        Controlled Vocabulary

·        Citation

·        Parenthetical Citation

·        Keyword

·        Bibliography

·        Copyright

·        Plagiarism

·        Boolean Operators

·        MLA

·        APA

·        Hidden Web

 

 

 

 

Be prepared to answer the following questions in one or two sentences.

 

 

How would you feel if someone else were to present your intellectual creations as their own?  Write down your feelings.

 

 

What are some ways you can avoid plagiarism?

 

 

 

What sources of information will you need to be able to locate, access, retrieve now that you have completed this course?

 

 

 

 

What databases will you use when you leave ASA?

 

 

 

 

 

What are some tools you can use to create a bibliography or works cited page?

 

 

 

 

 

Hidden deep or invisible web

The hidden or deep web are portals, databases, directories, clearinghouses and gateways that are not available via regular search engines. Most of the Web is not searchable. If you add gateway, portal, directory, or clearinghouse at the end of your search you will be using the deep web.

Also search engines such as; Academic Info, Infomine, and Librarians Index to the Internet will also provide you with capabilities to search the hidden web. These searches are longer and require 5-10 minutes of processing time. Be prepared to wait.

 

 

Recommended General Subject Directories: Table of Features

Web Directories	Librarians’ Internet Index www.lii.org	Infomine infomine.ucr.edu	About.com www.about.com	Google Directory directory.google.com	Yahoo! dir.yahoo.com
Size, type	Over 20,000. Compiled by public librarians. Highest quality sites only.	Over 125,000. Great, reliable annotations. Compiled by academic librarians from the University of California and elsewhere.	Over 2 million. Generally good annotations done by “Guides” with various levels of expertise.	About 5 million. Selected by the Open Directory Project and enhanced by Google searching and ranking.	About 4 million. Very short descriptions
Phrase searching (what’s this?)	Yes. Use ” ”	Yes. Use ” “ |term term| requires exact match	Yes. Use ” ”	Yes. Use ” ”	Yes. Use ” ”
Boolean logic (what’s this?)	AND implied between words. Also accepts OR and NOT, and (  ).	AND implied between words. Also accepts OR, NOT, and (  ).	No.	OR, capitalized, as in Google’s web search engine.	Yes, as in Yahoo! Search web search engine.
Field searching	Advanced Search allows Boolean searching within subject, titles, description, parts of URLs, and more.	Select options under search box to limit to Author, Title, Subject, Keyword, Description, various subject categories, and more.	No.	Same as in Google’s web search engine.	As in Yahoo! Search web search engine.

 

Subject Directories.  2008.  UC Berkeley Library.  Accessed on 7 Jan 2009. http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/SubjDirectories.html

2008 Lab: Das Kapital

Here is an e-book featured in this years lab.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Das_Kapital