Vast Active Library and Information Science blog. From a recent library science graduate in Wellington, New Zealand. A focus on reference and current awareness tools and issues, especially free, web-based resources.

 
The New York Times carries a longish article on Microsoft's challenge to Google. The Times is casting this as MS vs Silicon Valley, round 2, seeing similarities with the MS/Netscape battle.

Perhaps more interesting is the mention on page three of the article of a collaboration between Google and Stanford University Library:

And Google has embarked on an ambitious secret effort known as Project Ocean, according to a person involved with the operation. With the cooperation of Stanford University, the company now plans to digitize the entire collection of the vast Stanford Library published before 1923, which is no longer limited by copyright restrictions. The project could add millions of digitized books that would be available exclusively via Google.

In probably unrelated news, Library Journal reports that Stanford has left the ARL.

| posted by Simon at 10:01 am