Digitization

WiLS (Wisconsin Library Services) has recently announced a new Digitization on Demand service. This service will provide complete digital copies of works from UW Madison Memorial Library’s Special Collections and the Mills Music library that …

The Daily Cardinal has a very thorough article on the Google Books initiative and its implications for the UW Madison campus. The article discusses: staffing concerns at campus libraries copyright issues and the status of …

The Real Estate Collection is a new resource from the UW Digital Collections Center. It contains materials and examples of commercial work in real estate done by celebrated University of Wisconsin professor James A. Graaskamp …

A settlement has been reached in the class action lawsuit against Google over access to copyrighted material in Google Books. From the AP: According to a statement issued Tuesday by the Authors Guild, the Association …

Seattlepi reports on a the Workshop on the Future of the Legal Course Book at Seattle University Law School. Traditional publishers are confused about what professors want and where the industry is going…. Teachers want …

According to a GPO Request for Information: The United States Government Printing Office (GPO) plans to digitize the entire collection of legacy materials that have been disseminated through the Federal Depository Library Program. The estimated …

Tom Mighell over at Inter Alia reports on a cool service called PublicDomainReprints.org whereby you can order a reprint of a book in the public domain. Here’s how it works: 1. You request any public …

A couple interesting stories on book digitization crossed my path this week. The first is an article in EdTech about UW Madison’s involvement in the Google Book project. Google this spring began scanning 500,000 of …