Public/Private Mass Digitization Agreements
This is a selection of materials about mass digitization, public/private partnerships and the agreements that govern them, and matters of policy and other related topics.
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Google Agreements
University of California."Cooperative Agreement." August 3, 2006.
http://www.cdlib.org/news/ucgoogle_cooperative_agreement.pdf
University of Illinois on behalf of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation. "Cooperative Agreement." June 6, 2007.
http://www.cic.uiuc.edu/programs/CenterForLibraryInitiatives/Archive/PressRelease/LibraryDigitization/AGREEMENT.pdf
University of Michigan. "Cooperative Agreement." December 14, 2004.
http://www.lib.umich.edu/mdp/um-google-cooperative-agreement.pdf
University of Texas. "Cooperative Agreement." January 8, 2007.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/google/utexas_google_agreement.pdf
University of Virginia. "Cooperative Agreement." November 14, 2006.
http://www.lib.virginia.edu/press/uvagoogle/pdf/Google_UVA.pdf
University of Wisconsin. "Cooperative Agreement." October 12, 2006.
http://www.library.wisc.edu/digitization/googlecontract.pdf
Google Library Partnerships—Commentary
Bearman, David. "Jean-Noel Jeanneney's Critique of Google: Private Sector Book Digitization and Digital Library Policy." D-Lib Magazine. December 2006.
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/december06/bearman/12bearman.html
Brantley, Peter. "Book Search will not Work like Web Search." Peter Brantley's Thoughts and Speculations [blog]. January 1, 2008.
http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2008/01/02/trade_for_our_own_account
Brantley, Peter. "Google and the Books." Peter Brantley's Thoughts and Speculations [blog]. March 04, 2007.
http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2007/03/04/google_and_the_books
Brantley, Peter. "The Google Exchange." Radar O'Reilly. August 23, 2007.
http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/08/the_google_exch.html
Brantley, Peter. "Monetizing Libraries." Peter Brantley's Thoughts and Speculations. June 13, 2007. http://blogs.lib.berkeley.edu/shimenawa.php/2007/06/13/monetizing_libraries
California Digital Library. "The Google Books Library Project and the University of California" [CDL Web site]
http://www.cdlib.org/news/google.html
Cohen, Dan. "Google Books: Champagne or Sour Grapes?" Dan Cohen [blog]. August 16, 2007.
http://www.dancohen.org/2007/08/16/google-books-champagne-or-sour-grapes/
Courant, Paul N. "Google, Robert Darnton, and the Digital Republic of Letters." Au Courant [blog]. Feb. 4, 2009.
http://paulcourant.net/2009/02/04/google-robert-darnton-and-the-digital-republic-of-letters/
Courant, Paul N. "Scholarship and Academic Libraries (and their Kin) in the World of Google." First Monday. August 2006. http://www.firstmonday.org/issues/issue11_8/courant/index.html
Coyle, Karen. "The Dotted Line." Coyle's InFormation. August 29, 2006.
http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/2006/08/dotted-line.html
Hirschorn, Michael. "The Happless Seed." Atlantic Monthly. June 2007.
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200706/google-book-project
Darnton, Robert. "The Library in the New Age." The New York Review of Books. Volume 55, Number 10. June 12, 2008.
Johnson, Richard K. "In Google's Broad Wake: Taking Responsibility for Shaping the Global Digital Library." ARL: A Bimonthly Report, no. 250. February 2007.
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/arlbr250digprinciples.pdf
Last, Jonathan V. "Google and Its Enemies: The Much-Hyped Project to Digitize 32 Million Books Sounds Like a Good Idea. Why are So Many People Taking Shots at It?" The Weekly Standard. December 10, 2007. 013,13.
http://weeklystandard.com/content/public/articles/000/000/014/431afruv.asp
Peters, Tom. "Wooden Dominoes." ALA TechSource [blog]. February 6, 2007.
http://www.techsource.ala.org/blog/2007/02/wooden-dominoes.html
Roush, Wade. "The Infinite Library: Does Google's Plan to Digitize Millions of Print Books Spell the Death of Libraries; or Their Rebirth?" MIT Technology Review. May 2005.
http://www.technologyreview.com/Infotech/14408/
Toobin, Jeffrey. "Google's Moon Shot: The Quest for the Universal Library." The New Yorker. February 5, 2007. http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/02/05/070205fa_fact_toobin
Townsend, Robert B. "Google Books: Is It Good for History?" American Historical Association. Perspectives Online. September 2007.
http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/issues/2007/0709/0709vie1.cfm
Ubois, Jeff. "Google 'Showtimes' the UC Library System." Television Archiving. August 13, 2006.
http://www.archival.tv/2006/08/13/google-showtimes-the-uc-library-system/
Udell, Jon. "A Conversation with John Wilkin about the Michigan/Google Digitization Project." Infoworld. December 1, 2006.
http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2006/12/01.html#a1570
Weibel, Stu. "Cows and the Colossus." Weibel Lines [blog]. January 08, 2007.
http://weibel-lines.typepad.com/weibelines/2007/01/cows_and_the_co.html
Young, Jeffrey R. "U. of Michigan Librarian's New Blog Defends Institution's Deal with Google." Chronicle of Higher Education. November 26, 2007.
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/article/2565/u-of-michigan-librarians-new-blog-defends-institutions-deal-with-google
Google Book Settlement
Google Book Search Copyright Settlement [and attachments]. Google. Oct. 28, 2008.
http://books.google.com/booksrightsholders/agreement-contents.html
Authors Guild. "Authors Guild v. Google Settlement Resources Page."
http://www.authorsguild.org/advocacy/articles/settlement-resources.html
Association of American Publishers. "Google, AAP, Authors Guild: Joint Public FAQ."
http://publishers.org/main/Copyright/Google/Faq.htm
Google Book Settlement—Commentary
Bailey, Charles W., Jr. "Google Book Search Bibliography." Houston: Digital Scholarship. Version 4. June 29, 2009.
http://www.digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm
Band, Jonathan. "A Guide for the Perplexed: Libraries and the Google Library Project Settlement." EDUCAUSE CONNECT. Nov. 13, 2008.
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/Abstract/AGuideforthePerplexedLibr/47817?time=1230412300
Corson-Finnerty, Adam. "Google Book Settlement for Librarians." Musings of Mine [blog]. December 31, 2008. http://musingsofcorsonf.blogspot.com/2008/12/google-book-settlement-for-librarians.html
Courant, Paul. "The Google Settlement—From the Universal Library to the Universal Bookstore." Au Courant [blog]. Oct. 28, 2008.
http://paulcourant.net/2008/10/28/the-google-settlement-from-the-universal-library-to-the-universal-bookstore/
Coyle, Karen. [blog posts pertaining to Google Books] Coyle's InFormation. Nov. 3, 2008.
http://kcoyle.blogspot.com/search/label/googlebooks
Darnton, Robert. "Google & the Future of Books." The New York Review of Books. Volume 56, Number 2. February 12, 2009. http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22281
Erway, Ricky. "Impact of the Google Book Settlement on Libraries (Revised Version)." OCLC Research. March 11, 2009. http://www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2009/2009-01.pdf.
Fialkoff, Francine. "Editorial: Google Deal or Rip-Off?" Library Journal. Dec. 15, 2008.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6618842.html?industryid=47109
Grimmelmann, James. "Principles and Recommendations for the Google Book Search Settlement." The Laboratorium. Nov. 8, 2008.
http://laboratorium.net/archive/2008/11/08/principles_and_recommendations_for_the_google_book
Lessig, Lawrence. "On the Google Book Search agreement." Lessig [blog]. Oct. 29, 2008.
http://lessig.org/blog/2008/10/on_the_google_book_search_agre.html
Mirviss, Laura G. "Harvard-Google Online Book Deal at Risk." The Harvard Crimson. Oct. 30, 2008.
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=524989
Open Content Alliance (OCA). "Let's Not Settle for this Settlement." Open Content Alliance [blog]. Nov. 5, 2008.
http://www.opencontentalliance.org/2008/11/05/lets-not-settle-for-this-settlement/
Open Content Alliance (OCA). "Raw Deal for Libraries." [with commentary by Daniel Clancy and Karen Coyle.] Open Content Alliance [blog]. Dec. 6, 2008.
http://www.opencontentalliance.org/2008/12/06/a-raw-deal-for-libraries
Quint, Barbara. "The Google Book Search Settlement: 'The Devil's in the Details.'" Information Today. Nov. 3, 2008.
http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/nbReader.asp?ArticleId=51429
Rich, Mokoto. "Google Hopes to Open a Trove of Little-Seen Books." New York Times. Jan. 4, 2009.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/technology/internet/05google.html
Smith, Kevin. "Looking for the Devil in the Details." Scholarly Communications @ Duke. Nov. 7, 2008.
http://library.duke.edu/blogs/scholcomm/2008/11/07/looking-for-the-devil-in-the-details/
University of Michigan. "Major Universities See Promise in Google Book Search Settlement." [Stanford University, University of California, University of Michigan joint press release]. Oct. 28, 2008.
http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6807
von Lohmann, Fred. "Google Book Search Settlement: A Reader's Guide." Electronic Frontier Foundation [blog]. Oct. 31, 2008.
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/10/google-books-settlement-readers-guide
Wilkin, John. "BackTalk: HathiTrust and the Google Deal." Library Journal. Dec. 23, 2008.
http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6624782.html
NARA Partnerships and Related Commentary
Cohen, Dan. "A Closer Look at the National Archives–Footnote Agreement." Dan Cohen [blog]. February 5th, 2007. http://www.dancohen.org/2007/02/05/a-closer-look-at-the-national-archives-footnote-agreement/
Mohan, Jen. "NARA-Footnote Summary." Good Terms: Resources.
http://rlg.archival.tv/index.php?title=NARA-Footnote_Summary_by_Jen_Mohan%2C_Intelligent_Television
Mohan, Jen. "NARA-Google Summary." Good Terms: Resources.
http://rlg.archival.tv/index.php?title=NARA-Google_Summary_by_Jen_Mohan%2C_Intelligent_Television
National Archives and Records Administration." NARA–iArchives Digitization Agreement ." January 10, 2007.
http://www.archives.gov/iarchives/iarchives-digitization-agreement.html
National Archives and Records Administration. "NARA—The Generations Network: Proposed Digitization Agreement." [no date]
http://www.archives.gov/comment/tgn-agreement.pdf
National Archives and Records Administration. "NARA Latest Digitization Agreement: One Archivist's Perspective." ArchivesNext [blog]. April 9, 2008.
http://www.archivesnext.com/?p=135
Schoenfeld, Amy. "Digitizing the Nation 's Treasures." The New York Times. March 10, 2007.
http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/2007/03/10/business/11archive.chart.ready.html
Smithsonian Partnerships and Related Commentary
Craig, Bruce. "Historians Raise Concerns about Smithsonian's Deal with Showtime." American Historical Association. Perspectives Online. May 2006.
http://www.historians.org/Perspectives/issues/2006/0605/0605nch1.cfm
International Herald Tribune . "Smithsonian Announces Licensing Deal with Corbis for Images from Smithsonian Collections." January 24, 2007.
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/01/25/america/NA-GEN-US-Smithsonian-Corbis.php
Jardin, Xeni. "Smithsonian's Showtime Deal: Critical Attorneys Shred it." boingboing. April 7, 2006.
http://www.boingboing.net/2006/04/07/smithsonians-showtim.html
Manly, Lorne. "Filmmakers and Others Petition Against Smithsonian's Showtime Deal." New York Times. April 18, 2006.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/18/arts/television/18smit.html?ex=1303012800&en=61f9a97ee2be93d4&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
Mohan, Jen. "Smithsonian–Showtime Summary."
http://rlg.archival.tv/index.php?title=Smithsonian_-_Showtime_summary_by_Jen_Mohan%2C_Intelligent_Television
Trescott, Jacqueline. "End Smithsonian–Showtime Deal, Filmmakers and Historians Ask." The Washington Post. April 18, 2006. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/17/AR2006041701820.html
Trescott, Jacqueline. "Smithsonian Deal With Showtime Passes Muster." Washington Post. December 16, 2006.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/15/AR2006121501894_pf.html
Other Types of Digitization Arrangements
Ashmore, Beth and Jill E. Grogg. "The Race to the Shelf Continues: The Open Content Alliance and Amazon.com." Searcher. January, 2008.
http://www.infotoday.com/searcher/jan08/Ashmore_Grogg.shtml
Bullock, Dave. "The Internet Archive Keeps Book-Scanning Free." [Wired.com]. March 19, 2008.
http://www.wired.com/entertainment/theweb/multimedia/2008/03/gallery_internet_archive
Boston Public Library/Internet Archive. "Library Book Scanning Cooperation Agreement." April 6, 2007. http://ia350617.us.archive.org/1/items/bostonpubliclibrary/BLPagreementnosignatures.pdf
Christenson, Heather. "UC Libraries Mass Digitization Projects: Frequently Asked Questions." Inside CDL. April 23, 2008.
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/massdig/faq.html
Foster, Andrea L. "An Upstart Web Catalog Challenges an Academic-Library Giant." The Chronicle of Higher Education. February 22, 2008.
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i24/24a01101.htm
Hafner, Katie. "Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web." New York Times. October 22, 2007
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/22/technology/22library.html
Hirtle, Peter. 2007. "OCA Contract Analysis." LibraryLaw Blog. November 5.
http://blog.librarylaw.com/librarylaw/2007/11/i-promised-in-m.html
Internet Archive. "The Internet Archive Receives Grant from Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to Digitize and Provide Open Online Access to Historical Collections from Five Major Libraries." Press Release. December 20, 2006.
http://www.opencontentalliance.org/20061220.OCArelease.pdf
Internet Archive and the University of California. "IA/UC Book Scanning Cooperation Agreement." August 23, 2006.
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/massdig/docs/oca2.pdf
Jaschik, Scott. "An Alternative to Google." Inside Higher Ed. June 22, 2007.
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/06/22/digitize
Kahle, Brewster, Michael S. Hart, and Michael Keller. "Digital Libraries." Science Friday. May 11, 2007.
http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2007/May/hour1_051107.html
Linker, Adam. "NCSU, UNC Shun Google, Microsoft on Deal to Digitize Books." Triangle Business Journal. March 7, 2008.
http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/stories/2008/03/10/story7.html?t=printable
Microsoft Corporation and the University of California. "Master Agreement Between Microsoft Corporation and the University of California." February 20, 2007.
http://www.cdlib.org/inside/projects/massdig/docs/ms2.pdf
Open Content Alliance. "A Call To Participate in the Open Content Alliance." October 02, 2005.
http://www.opencontentalliance.org/participate.html
Roush, Wade. "Coalition of Boston Libraries Chooses the Un-Google Route to Digitization." Xconomy|Kendall Sqaure. September 28, 2007.
http://www.xconomy.com/2007/09/28/coalition-of-boston-libraries-chooses-the-un-google-route-to-digitization/
Policy
American Library Association (2007). "Task Force on Digitization Policy." July 12, 2007.
http://www.ala.org/ala/washoff/oitp/digtask.cfm
Center for Research Libraries. "Principles and Guidelines for Entering into an Agreement with Commercial Vendors in the Digitization of CRL Holdings." November 30, 2005.
http://www.crl.edu/PDF/CSAPprinciples.pdf
Council of State Archivists Task Force on Online Content Providers. "Statement on Digital Access Partnerships." April 19, 2007.
http://www.statearchivists.org/issues/ocp/index.htm
i2010 EUROPEAN DIGITAL LIBRARIES INITIATIVE. High Level Expert Group on Digital Libraries. Sub-group on Public Private Partnerships. "Final Report on Public Private Partnerships for the Digitisation and Online Accessibility of Europe's Cultural Heritage." May 2008. http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/activities/digital_libraries/doc/hleg/reports/ppp/ppp_final.pdf
Kaufman, Peter and Jeff Ubois. 2007. "Good Terms: Improving Commercial-Noncommercial Partnerships for Mass Digitization; A Report Prepared by Intelligent Television for RLG Programs, OCLC Programs and Research." D-Lib Magazine, 13,11/12 (November/December).
http://dlib.org/dlib/november07/kaufman/11kaufman.html
National Archives and Records Administration. "Plan for Digitizing Archival Materials for Public Access, 2007-2016. [Draft for Public Comment.]" September 10, 2007.
http://www.archives.gov/comment/digitizing-plan.html
U.S. National Commission on Libraries and Information Science. "Mass Digitization: Implications for Information Policy: Report from 'Scholarship and Libraries in Transition: A Dialogue about the Impacts of Mass Digitization Projects' Symposium held on March 10-11, 2006, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI." May 9, 2006.
http://www.nclis.gov/digitization/MassDigitizationSymposium-Report.pdf
Related Commentary
Carvajal, Doreen. "European Libraries Face Problems in Digitalizing." International Herald Tribune - Technology & Media. October 28, 2007. http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/28/business/LIBRARY29.php
Council on Library and Information Resources."Scholars' Evaluation and Analysis of Major Digitization Projects." July 10, 2007.
http://www.clir.org/activities/details/scholeval.html
Coyle, Karen. "Mass Digitization of Books." Preprint: The Journal of Academic Librarianship, v. 32, n. 6. November 2006.
http://www.kcoyle.net/jal-32-6.html
Erway, Ricky, and Jennifer Schaffner. "Shifting Gears: Gearing Up to Get Into the Flow." Report produced by OCLC Programs and Research. October 2007. www.oclc.org/research/publications/library/2007/2007-02.pdf
Goth, Greg. "Digital Libraries Are Taking Form." IEEE Distributed Systems Online. vol. 8, no. 12, 2007, art. no. 0712-oz004.
http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/site/dsonline/menuitem.9ed3d9924aeb0dcd82ccc6716bbe36ec/index.jsp?&pName=dso_level1&path=dsonline/2007/12&file=oz004news.xml&xsl=article.xsl&
Grafton, Anthony. "Future Reading: Digitization and its Discontents." The New Yorker. November 5, 2007.
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/11/05/071105fa_fact_grafton?printable=true
Hafner, Katie. "History, Digitized (and Abridged)." The New York Times. March 10, 2007.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/10/business/yourmoney/11archive.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
Kaufman, Peter B. "Marketing Culture in the Digital Age: A Report on New Business Collaborations Between Libraries, Museums, Archives and Commercial Companies." August 25, 2005.
http://www.intelligenttelevision.com/MarketingCultureinDigitalAge.pdf
Kelly, Kevin. "Scan This Book!" New York Times. May 14, 2006.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/14/magazine/14publishing.html
Lavoie, Brian, Lynn Silipigni Connaway, and Lorcan Dempsey. "Anatomy of Aggregate Collections: The Example of Google Print for Libraries." D-Lib Magazine. September 2005.
http://www.dlib.org//dlib/september05/lavoie/09lavoie.html
Rieger, Oya Y. "Preservation in the Age of Large-Scale Digitization." Council on Library and Information Resources. September 2007.
http://www.clir.org/activities/details/lsdi.pdf
White, Lee. "Public-Private Partnerships: Are They the Wave of the Future?" American Historical Association. Perspectives Online. March 2007.
http://www.historians.org/perspectives/issues/2007/0703/0703nch1.cfm
Related Resources
Mass Digitization and Partnership Agreements Project—work completed to help partner institutions contribute in meaningful ways to the collective whole that mass digitization is developing, whether or not they are already involved in Google, OCA, Microsoft or other initiatives.