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<p align="center"><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;">OPLIN 4cast #46 -
March 13, 2007</span></b></p>
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<p class="style4">This week’s <em>4cast</em><b>:</b></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">1. <strong>Search Inside a Book
(Once You've Figured Out Who Published It)</strong></span></p>
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<p>In an effort to defend their turf from the likes of <a
href="http://books.google.com/" target="_blank">Google Book Search</a>
and <a
href="http://www.amazon.com/Search-Inside-Book-Books/b?ie=UTF8&node=10197021"
target="_blank">Amazon's Search Inside!</a>, mega-publishers <a
href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/insight/index.html"
target="_blank">Random House</a> and <a
href="http://www.harpercollins.com/features/browseinsidefaq/"
target="_blank">HarperCollins</a> have both unveiled book-browsing
tools for their own catalogs. Some scoffing is heard. </p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070228-8949.html"
target="_blank">Publishers try to stave off Google, Amazon with book
search</a> (Ars Technica) </li>
<li><a
href="http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/internet/02/28/book.browsing.reut/index.html"
target="_blank">Publishers OK online book browsing</a> (CNN) </li>
<li> <a href="http://techdirt.com/articles/20070227/165906.shtml"
target="_blank">Publishing Houses Think That Expensive, Fragmented And
Limited Book Search Is Better Than Letting Google And Amazon Do It?</a>
(Techdirt) </li>
<li><a href="http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=6249" target="_blank">'Mine!
Mine!': The risk of proprietary approach to book searching</a>
(TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home) </li>
</ul>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">2. <strong>Knocking the
Entertainment Industry Down a Notch </strong></span></p>
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<p>Lawmakers recently introduced the <a
href="http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/files/FAIR_ACT.pdf"
target="_blank">Fair Use Act of 2007</a>
(PDF), which would allow consumers to circumvent DRM technologies under
certain circumstances (for example, librarians would be allowed to do
so in order to update or preserve materials). However, some critics
warn that the bill doesn't go far enough to balance the perceived
injustices of the <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMCA"
target="_blank">Digital Millennium Copyright Act</a> (DMCA). </p>
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<ul>
<li><a href="http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,72833-0.html"
target="_blank">Lawmakers Tout DMCA Killer</a> (Wired News)</li>
<li><a
href="http://copyrightreadings.blogspot.com/2007/03/library-copyright-alliance-strongly.html"
target="_blank">Library Copyright Alliance Strongly Supports H.R.
1201, the FAIR USE Act</a> (Current copyright readings) </li>
<li><a
href="http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070228-8942.html"
target="_blank">FAIR USE Act analysis: DMCA reform left on the cutting
room floor</a> (Ars Technica)</li>
<li><a
href="http://www.boingboing.net/2007/02/27/fair_use_act_copyrig.html"
target="_blank">FAIR Use Act: copyright reform bill introduced in House</a>
(Boing Boing) </li>
</ul>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">3.<strong> Ning's the Thing </strong></span></p>
<blockquote>
<p><a href="http://www.ning.com/" target="_blank">Ning</a> is an
online tool that allows users to easily create their own social
networks. <a href="http://library20.ning.com/" target="_blank">Some
librarians are getting pretty into it</a>.</p>
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<ul>
<li><a
href="http://lifehacker.com/software/community/ning-relaunches-instant-web-community-tool-240608.php"
target="_blank">Ning relaunches instant web community tool</a>
(Lifehacker) </li>
<li><a
href="http://babyboomerlibrarian.blogspot.com/search/label/Ning"
target="_blank">More on Ning and the Library 2.0 Network</a> (Baby
Boomer Librarian)</li>
<li><a
href="http://www.theshiftedlibrarian.com/archives/2007/03/08/social_librarians.html"
target="_blank">Social Librarians</a> (The Shifted Librarian) </li>
<li><a
href="http://scruffynerf.wordpress.com/2007/03/06/my-thoughts-on-online-communities/"
target="_blank">My Thoughts On Online Communities</a> (Life as I Know
It)</li>
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<p><span style="font-size: 14pt;">4.<strong> Search Continues... </strong></span></p>
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<p>Search
engines - of both the local and metasearch variety - just keep on
getting better and better, leading some to lament the diminishing role
that libraries are playing in helping people find information. </p>
<ul>
<li><a
href="http://geek.lisnews.org/article.pl?sid=07/03/08/0027223&from=rss"
target="_blank">Google Answers Researchers Launch Uclue</a> (LISNews) </li>
<li><a href="http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6413442.html"
target="_blank">(Meta)search Like Google</a> (Library Journal) </li>
<li><a
href="http://radar.oreilly.com/archives/2007/03/ask_adds_search.html"
target="_blank">Ask Adds Search Targeting Tools</a> (O'Reilly Radar) </li>
<li><a
href="http://www.degreetutor.com/library/research-tools/librarian-searchguide">Librarian's
Ultimate Guide to Search Engines</a> (DegreeTutor)</li>
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2323 W. 5th Avenue, Suite 130
Columbus, Ohio 43204
Phone: (614) 728-5252
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