+ Mark Sandler
Director, Center for Library Initiatives, Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC). Includes discussion of public domain materials and Hathi Trust.
If There Would be Legislation, What Would it Look Like (cont)?
Comments from:
+ Shelton
+ Jonathan Band (Moderator)
+ Question from Audience re: Libraries Sharing Files with Commercial Entities
+ Google Would Pay 32 Million To Registry
+ Question Regarding Claims Process
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The ALA Washington Office’s breakout session titled “Panel Discussion on (GBS)” explores the possible court rulings – approval, denial or permutation there in – and how they would impact libraries.
Jonathan Band, intellectual property attorney and counsel for the ALA, will lead the discussion and pose questions to an expert group of panelists. Invited panelists include a representative from Google, a professor from the New York University Law School, a representative from the U.S. Copyright Office and a librarian from a GBS participating library.
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Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
