Re: [CODE4LIB] Next-generation policy for WorldCat records—open for community review

2010-04-11 Thread Ed Summers
On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Tim Spalding t...@librarything.com wrote: While the new draft is written in a much friendlier tone, and even has some improvements, it also takes away concrete rights that libraries had in the earlier drafts, including the right to consider fully theirs

Re: [CODE4LIB] Next-generation policy for WorldCat records?open for community review

2010-04-11 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting Ed Summers e...@pobox.com: On Sun, Apr 11, 2010 at 12:00 AM, Tim Spalding t...@librarything.com wrote: While the new draft is written in a much friendlier tone, and even has some improvements, it also takes away concrete rights that libraries had in the earlier drafts, including the

Re: [CODE4LIB] Next-generation policy for WorldCat records?open for community review

2010-04-11 Thread Jonathan Rochkind
I'm trying to get a handle on the new policy as compared to the old policy, and what it really means. All in all, it seems much more vague than the first draft, no longer trying to be an obligatory legal contract like the first draft was -- in this way more similar to the old 1987 policy. If

Re: [CODE4LIB] Next-generation policy for WorldCat records?open for community review

2010-04-11 Thread Karen Coyle
Quoting Jonathan Rochkind rochk...@jhu.edu: If specific rights were taken out, this kind of makes sense -- becuase if the (first draft) policy says you CAN transfer your original cataloging and non-OCLC records without permission, the implication (or was it explicit?) was that you can

[CODE4LIB] Google Books Bibliography, Version 6

2010-04-11 Thread Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
Version 6 of the Google Books Bibliography is now available from Digital Scholarship. http://digital-scholarship.org/gbsb/gbsb.htm This bibliography presents over 310 selected English-language articles and other works that are useful in understanding Google Books. It primarily focuses on the