If you were so inclined you could probably spend the better part of the next month on daily seminars and webinars related to the proposed Google Books legal settlement. Yesterday’s venue was the NY Public Library, moderated by David Ferriero (moments before he was reported as President Obama’s pick to be Archivist of the United States). A number of librarians expressed concerns about managing the single all-access terminal to be provided for each public library branch. Bertelsmann’s Richard Sarnoff suggested that on this and other matters, the settlement should be viewed as a starting point rather than a definitive rule-set. […]
