Google Books settlement panel and ALA Task Force

["B.G. Sloan" <bgsloan2@yahoo.com>]

FYI...  Bernie Sloan

--- On Mon, 6/21/10, M. Claire Stewart 
<claire-stewart@northwestern.edu> wrote:

Subject: [lita-l] Google Books settlement panel and ALA Task Force
To: LITA-L@ALA.ORG
Date: Monday, June 21, 2010, 7:12 PM

LITA colleagues:

At the 2009 ALA Annual Conference, ALA Council approved a 
resolution that requested the ALA President, with advice from the 
ALA Executive Board, "to convene an ALA wide representative group 
to continue to assess the proposed Google Book Search Settlement 
and its ongoing impact on ALA members and member institutions to 
make recommendations for action by the Association and its 
members." I am currently serving as the LITA representative to 
the ALA Task Force, which will meet through the 2011 Annual 
Conference.

The Task Force has a space on ALA Connect, and I encourage all 
interested LITA members to visit this space 
<http://connect.ala.org/node/90049> and to share, either via that 
forum or to me directly so that I may carry to the group, your 
concerns or questions about the Proposed Settlement.

There will be a panel session on the Proposed Settlement at 
Annual: The ALA Washington Office is hosting the ALA ad hoc 
Google Task Force's breakout session titled "Panel Discussion on 
Life after the Google Book Search Settlement (GBS)" which will 
explore the possible court rulings - approval, denial or 
permutation there in - and how libraries would be impacted.

The session will be held on Saturday, June 26 from 10:30 a.m. to 
noon in Convention Center, Room 151B.

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 (Johanna 
Shelton - confirmed), a professor from the New York University 
Law School (James Grimmelmann - confirmed), a representative from 
the U.S. Copyright Office and a librarian from a GBS 
participating library.

____________________________________________________
M. Claire Stewart
Head, Digital Collections
Northwestern University Library
claire-stewart@northwestern.edu
http://hdl.handle.net/2166/claire