New Article: “Millions of Magazines Hidden in Google Books Library Project Endanger U.S. Copyright”
Here’s a link to an article in the latest issue of AALL (American Association of Law Libraries) Spectrum. The article might be of interest to some of you.
Title
Millions of Magazines Hidden in Google Books Library Project Endanger U.S. Copyright
Author
Barbara Kevles
Source
AALL Spectrum (Vol. 17 No. 7; May 2013)
From the Article
On Access
Georgetown University Library Head of Metadata Services, Shana McDanold says, “The Library Project presents a different set of challenges for user access than we’ve seen before. Generally, there is a landing page for the magazine, such as in EBSCO or JSTOR, the digitized journal archive, which allows users to browse the content and find the issue they want from that single page. Different access points will make it harder for users and for libraries to collocate access points for users and create a succinct and clear presentation.”
On Privacy
But numerous electronic services librarians countrywide express alarm, not only about the Google Library’s rights clearances, but also about its lack of privacy safeguards and potential for government intrusion. University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point Metadata Librarian, Scott Piepenburg says, “If a researcher goes to a public library . . . that research is protected by state and federal privacy law, as well as library ethics. Once that information passes into a third party like Google, those securities are gone. Google can see what you’re researching, and that information becomes saleable.”
Direct to Full Text Article (4 pages; PDF)
Filed under: Academic Libraries, EBSCO, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users, Public Libraries
About Gary Price
Gary Price (gprice@gmail.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. He earned his MLIS degree from Wayne State University in Detroit. Price has won several awards including the SLA Innovations in Technology Award and Alumnus of the Year from the Wayne St. University Library and Information Science Program. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com.
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