Metasearching : Metasearching. NISO has announced a pair of meetings The Next Generation of Access: OpenURL and Metasearch.

On October 29 and 30 NISO will hold two one-day conferences to inform you about the two leading standards initiatives that promise to re-shape information access for all actors in the information delivery equation -- publisher, aggregator, librarian, student, scholar and author. You can attend one or both events. Both meetings will be held at the conference center at the American Geophysical Union in Washington, DC.

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Reading : Decline in reading hurts publishers. Peter Murray writes "The United States (of course) isn't the only country facing a decline in reading with competition from other media. The Hindu Business Line has an article with the title 'Satellite TV, piracy hit publishing cos' about how a publisher is working with librarians to address the issue." They say decline in reading habits, spiralling cost of production, piracy, proliferation of cheap quality books and onslaught of satellite TV channels have been cutting ground from under publishing industry's feet [LISNews.com]  12:29:19 PM   [Feedback ]  

Libraries : The Distributed Library Project. The Distributed Library Project "is an experiment in sharing information and building community in the San Francisco Bay Area. Unfortunately, the traditional library system doesn't do much to foster community. Patrons come and go, but there is very little opportunity to establish relationships with people or groups of people. In fact, if you try to talk with someone holding a book you like - you'll probably get shushed. The Distributed Library Project works in exactly the opposite way, where the very function of the library depends on interaction." Via This /. Thread [LISNews.com]  7:23:25 AM   [Feedback ]