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An Upstart Web Catalog Challenges an Academic-Library Giant
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Foster, Andrea L. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
21-year-old Aaron Swartz is attempting to turn the library world upside down. He is taking on the subscription-based WorldCat, the largest bibliographic database on the planet, by building a free online book catalog that anyone can update. Many academic librarians are wary of Mr. Swartz's project because it will allow nonlibrarians, who may be…
Descriptors: Bibliographic Databases, Online Catalogs, Internet, Access to Information
Snacks in the Stacks: Libraries Welcome Food amid the Books
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Foster, Andrea L. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
Revitalization is what Morningside College had in mind in 2006, when it lifted a ban against eating in the library. That is when its library cafe, which opened a year earlier, began offering sandwiches and soups that could be carried into study areas and computer labs. Morningside has joined those that are casting aside their libraries' stuffy…
Descriptors: Colleges, College Faculty, Library Services, Research Universities
Microsoft's Book-Search Project Has a Surprise Ending
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Foster, Andrea L. – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2008
It is hard to imagine a Microsoft venture falling under the weight of a competitor. That's the post-mortem offered by many academic librarians as they ponder the software giant's recent and sudden announcement that it is shutting down its book-digitization project. The librarians' conclusion: Google did it. Microsoft quietly revealed in May that…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Librarian Attitudes, Electronic Libraries, Access to Information