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		<title>When I&#8217;m Sixty-four</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sergeant Pepper&#8217;s Lonely Hearts Club Band was released in 1967.  I was nineteen years old, a junior in college.  Like many of that time, place and age, I listened to the album hundreds of times, in various states of consciousness, some of them more conscious than others.  If asked to produce the entire album from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Georgia State in Publishers Weekly: Tom Allen of the AAP vs. Moi</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago Publishers Weekly published an adaptation of my June 9 blog post on the Georgia State trial on their “Soapbox” page.  This week’s issue of PW contains a reply by Tom Allen, President of the Association of American Publishers.
Perhaps not surprisingly, Mr. Allen and I do a good deal of talking past [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulcourant.net/2011/07/12/georgia-state-in-publishers-weekly-tom-allen-of-the-aap-vs-moi/</link>
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		<title>Closing the book on academic freedom</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following post, which provides a constitutional analysis of aspects of the Georgia State case, is written by Bobby Glushko, J.D., who is currently Associate Librarian in the Copyright Office of the University of Michigan Library.  I find Glushko&#8217;s views to be illuminating and important.  In this post, Mr. Glushko speaks for himself, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulcourant.net/2011/06/23/closing-the-book-on-academic-freedom/</link>
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		<title>The Georgia State filing &#8211; A declaration of war on the faculty?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I once took one of those pricey b-school executive education workshops designed to teach leadership skills.  One of the things I learned there was the importance of distinguishing between adversaries and enemies.  In academic administration, in library management, and in the life of a faculty member, one often finds oneself in positions that are adverse [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Benefits, Costs, and Googleization: A Comment on Siva Vaidhyanathan</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In a recent issue of Publisher’s Weekly.com, my friend Siva Vaidhyanathan characterized my support of the Google Books Project in ways that I must take issue with.  (He also said many things that are  insightful, wise and witty, and the whole interview is worth reading.)
Here’s the part that motivates this post:
PW: But Michigan librarian Paul [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A National Digital Library?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My friend and colleague Robert Darnton, Director of the Harvard University Library, has lately been championing the creation of a National Digital Library (for background, see this, and this), and I wholeheartedly support any plan that coordinates the efforts of our nation’s foundations and research and cultural institutions toward providing ubiquitous and permanent digital access [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulcourant.net/2010/10/12/a-national-digital-library/</link>
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		<title>Finding Books in the 21st Century</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was in Powell&#8217;s Books in Portland Oregon today, basking in the warmth of all of those books and all of the people basking in the warmth of all of those books and bookish people.  I couldn&#8217;t remember the author of the book that I was looking for, but I knew the title.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulcourant.net/2010/04/24/finding-books-in-the-21st-century/</link>
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		<title>The Card Catalog and Biblical Plagues</title>
		<description><![CDATA[After extended deliberation and over twenty years after its official retirement, the University of Michigan Library decided recently to divest itself of the old card catalog &#8212; 108 cases containing over 12 million cards.  The story was fairly widely covered, with a piece in the official University Record and another in the local digital [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulcourant.net/2010/03/12/the-card-catalog-and-biblical-plagues/</link>
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		<title>Digitization and accessibility</title>
		<description><![CDATA[From the very beginning, one of the most exciting possibilities of the Google Digitization Project was its potential to open up vast stores of text to a group of users to whom it had previously been inaccessible: people with visual impairments and print disabilities. Before Google (B.G.), students and scholars who wanted access to the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulcourant.net/2009/11/02/digitization-and-accessibility/</link>
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		<title>The Economist and the librarian-economist on the Google settlement</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The current issue of The Economist has a leader supporting the Google settlement and an article in the business section that quotes me in the course of discussing the issue.  I am described, with my enthusiastic consent, as running an orphanage.  The more I think of it the better the orphan metaphor works. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://paulcourant.net/2009/09/07/the-economist-and-the-librarian-economist-on-the-google-settlement/</link>
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