Google and Google Book Search

Many of my recent posts (Human Education Network, ECAR, Webpage Documents, Trailfire) focus on the future of education and the internet's role in that.  Yesterday Inside Google Book Search posted an short article about a conference they recently had in New York about the future of the book.  As part of their post they posted a video montage of the event.

The conference, appropriately titled 'Unbound,' focused on the future of books.  Here are a couple of quotes.

Presumably talking about a website centered around a book one presenter said:

"The website should be interactive.  It should be forum, there should be author talks, there should be talks the author can participate in."

Google Operating System, a blog I absolutely love, published an article today about a new(?) development on the Google Book Search that shows a contextual map of locations that are mentioned in a book.  Fantastic idea for augmenting your literature study!  They use "War and Peace" as an example of all the places mentioned in the book.  Man I love Google!

UPDATE: (1/26/07 8:41 a.m.)
I didn't realize how much Google Book Search really has.  As I looked around I noticed a myriad of options there that would REALLY be useful in education.  In addition to the cool map you get the following for selected works:

• A List of Editions
• References to Scholarly Work about the Book
• References to this Book in other Books
• Related Books
• Selected Pages from Editions
• Ability to Search for Specific Words or Phrases in the Book (Great for Research!)
• A List of Key Words and Phrases and Links to Those in the Book

WOW!  This is amazing!  I wish I would have had/used this resource when I was in Graduate School!

C|NET has a nine and a half minute video of Mary Sue Coleman speaking about their library digitization project.
http://news.com.com/1606-2_3-6036176.html

The transcript of her speech is available her:
http://www.umich.edu/pres/speeches/060206google.html

In this 32 minute recording, I join Rick Weingarten, Director of the ALA's Office of IT Policy, for a look inside the beltway.  Join us as he shares a brief bit of background about the American Library Association and a fairly interesting discussion about privacy, the google print litigation, and internet governance.

Also of interest could be ACRL's blog entry noting a number of higher ed associations have released a guide to copyright. Oh, and don't forget resources from our own policy office ;)



This interview is provided courtesy of CNI and was recorded at their 2005 Fall Task Force Meeting.  The Coalition for Networked Information (CNI) is an organization dedicated to supporting the transformative promise of networked information technology for the advancement of scholarly communication and the enrichment of intellectual productivity.  You can learn more about CNI at their web site, http://www.cni.org