Did you know Google has advanced searching techniques as well as cloud storage and collaborate document drafting tools?  To find out more, register for our Googlerific workshop - the last in our Research Life-line workshop series.

Date:  Wed. March 26
Time:  12:10 - 1pm
Location:  Room 014
R.S.V.P:  lawdek@hofstra.edu

Lunch and surprise gift included.

Ernster, the Virtual Library Cat

Hofstra Student Cited in Widely-Read Opinion

Congratulations to Hofstra Law student Alessandra Glorioso, whose note in the Hofstra Law Review, Google Books: An Orphan Works Solution?, was cited in the Southern District of New York's recent rejection of the Google Books settlement.

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New Site for Digital Books

We all know about Google Books, but where else can a virtual cat go to curl up with a virtual book? A new site called BookServer helps people (and cats) find information on digital books that are available for free or for a fee.

This service is provided by the Internet Archive - one of the great resources on the Internet - and subject of past and no doubt future postings.



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Problems With Google Books

In a recent Language Log post, Geoff Nunberg explains the metadata problems found in Google Books and why they matter. (Basically, Google Books has millions of volumes of scanned books, but the information that describes these scanned books is often wrong because Google has relied on information taken from the scanned images rather than relying on information provided by the libraries that provided the books for scanning.)

This is a big reason why any search for a downloadable copy of an old book that is out of copyright should not begin and end with Google Books. You should use archive.org as well.



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