CULTech Blog

Discussion on the Google Books Settlement is getting very hot and heavy, with strong words from both supporters and opponents of the current settlement. As you may know, the Cornell University Library submitted a letter to the court in support of the settlement, although with a request for court oversight of some of the terms. [...]

This morning, I was forwarded a query from a Cornell undergraduate, noting the impending announcement tomorrow of a new, larger screen Amazon Kindle and linking to a Wall Street Journal story on its potential use as an electronic textbook. He suggested that Cornell should consider signing up as one of the universities making this device [...]

The use of mobile devices for research, learning, teaching and creative expression is growing very rapidly. The most recent Horizon report from Educause and the New Media Consortium identifies Mobiles as a key educational technology trend with a time-to-adoption of one year or less. We’re exploring this issue for the Library and figuring out where [...]

There is a lot of very interesting recent activity in the eBooks arena, and it’s been generating a lot of comment in the new and old media. Here are four recent events that I found particularly noteworthy:
Google Book Search Mobile
Google has released a mobile version of Google Books, with over 1.5 million public domain volumes [...]