Other Material

Relevant URLs:

http://www.opencontentalliance.org/

Open Content Alliance

http://www.archive.org/index.php

Internet Archive

http://www.arl.org/sparc/

SPARC

http://www.google.com/googlebooks/library.html

Google Books

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/05/technology/internet/05google.html

NY Times article on Google Book Search

http://openknowledgecommons.org/

Open Knowledge Communs - Under construction as of this writing

http://www.iliac.org

ILIAC

http://www.harrimaninstitute.org/

Harriman Institute

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/

Columbia University Libraries

http://www.unabashedlibrarian.com

The U*N*A*B*A*S*H*E*D^TM Librarian

http://www.iliac.org/seminar/gl/index2.html

[2008 Conference: Google and Libraries]

Two Analyses by Jonathon Band for ALA & ARL of the Google Library Project Settlement:

http://www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/oitp/googlepaprfnl.pdf   [ALA only]
http://www.arl.org/bm~doc/google-settlement-13nov08.pdf   [ALA and ARL]

Background:

Open Access and Libraries is the second annual one-day international conference sponsored by ILIAC and the Harriman Institute and Columbia University Libraries. The 2008 conference, Google and Libraries, was so successful that attendees requested that there be another conference in 2009. These conferences originated at the request of ILIAC , an international library organization based in Moscow and Washington, DC that conducts annual study tours of U.S. libraries. At the invitation of ILIAC, Maurice J. Freedman, Publisher of The U*N*A*B*A*S*H*E*D^TM Librarian, the ‘how I run my library good’^SM letter, organized both the 2008 and 2009 conferences in consultation with ILIAC and Columbia University Libraries.

We trust that you will find this year’s conference on Open Access and Libraries stimulating, informative, and, indeed, exciting. The speakers occupy positions central to open access developments—the Executive Directors of SPARC and the Open Knowledge Commons—to the proprietary Google Books Library Project, and what is going on in Russian and CIS libraries. This should guarantee a comprehensive picture of the state of the art of open access and libraries today and for the foreseeable future.