digitizationblog News on digitization in libraries and allied institutions

Jill Hurst-Wahl has posted some interesting thoughts on digitization 101 about how Google's recent activities are promoting digitization. I would add another -- being able to google the full text of these books is useful, but without decent descriptive metadata to aid discovery, Google Print will provide additional examples of the differences between organized collections of documents and undifferentiated, unorganized online content. It would be great if MARC records for freely available titles could also be downloaded. Perhaps the participating libraries could give away free cataloguing copy for the digitized titles.