The Special Libraries Association Central Ohio Chapter invites you to join them for a social gathering at Milestone 229 in Columbus! This is great opportunity to get to know members of the chapter, network, and relax.

When: May 8, 2012 from 5:00-7:00 pm
Where: Milestone 229
http://milestone229.com/
229 Civic Center Dr.
Columbus, OH 43215

Valet parking, meters and surface lots are all available. No R.S.V.P. is necessary. However, you are welcome to email Erin Waltz at slacentralohpres@gmail.com so that we can estimate how many people are coming.

While this event is intended for current, future and past library professionals, everyone is welcome. The more the merrier!

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-504943_162-20075473-10391715.html

http://americanlibrariesmagazine.org/perpetualbeta/british-library-and-google-make-250000-books-available-all

Google will allow a quarter of a million out-of copyright books from the vast collections of the BL freely available on the web. (“Freely,” of course, still meaning that we don’t pay except in search data, and the BL doesn’t pay, except in giving the texts to Google…)

http://www.bostonreview.net/BR35.6/roychoudhuri.php

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/31/librarian-positions-cut-schools_n_869458.html

“Dryad is an international repository for data underlying peer-reviewed articles in the basic and applied biosciences. Many datasets collected by academic researchers are not shared with the wider community even after findings based upon them are reported in the literature. Dryad is addressing this shortcoming via a consortium of biology journals, and a model linking the publication of data with the publication of associated scholarly articles. Dryad enables scientists to validate published findings, explore new analysis methodologies, repurpose data for research questions unanticipated by the original authors, and perform synthetic studies. A chief aim is to balance a need for low barriers inviting contribution from scientists and higher-level goals supporting data synthesis. Repository development is ongoing, and coincides with daily curatorial activities and a metadata-intensive research agenda.”  See more at http://www.oclc.org/research/news/2011-03-24.htm

-Note this is not a co-asis&t sponsored presentation.

If you’d like to see the text of the decision, you may do so here; James Grimmelman has a detailed analysis available, including a focus on the difference between the original claims of the suit (that Google violated copyright, on which the opinion seems to find that the claims could have been legally settled) and the “future releases” impacts of Google Books (the potential results of their actions for all future commercial use they could make of their scans). The second is the center of Judge Chin’s eventual dismissal of the settlement.

The Open Book Alliance, not surprisingly, has a strong congratulation for the decision, especially for its focus on Google’s potential monopoly; Eric Hellman has some very pertinent comments on the potential ramifications if all the effort already invested in the METADATA in the Books Rights Registry  become a casualty of the court’s decision.

http://chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/6-top-tech-trends-on-the-horizon-for-education/29581

http://gizmodo.com/5731594/12-technologies-on-the-verge-of-extinction