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# Google Book Search and Libraries
- URL: https://www.lorcandempsey.net/google-book-search-and-libraries/
- Published: 2009-01-17T21:56:07.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T09:18:16.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Collections, Systems

My colleague Ricky Erway has distilled material relevant to libraries from the proposed Google agreement with the APA and Authors’ Guild.

> Now I’m not a lawyer (and I’ve had that confirmed by our folks in legal) and not even a little lawyer-like, but I read the settlement agreement, most of the appendices (I mean, really, at some point do even the lawyers say, I am not going to read that one!?), and the three library-registry agreements and I tried to note the bits that matter to libraries. (That’s boiling down about 320 pages into a 4 1/2 page summary, so I’ve left out a bit of detail.) \[HangingTogether – The Google Book Settlement – what does it mean for the rest of us?\]

The above blog entry provides some context. The distillation is [here](https://www.oclc.org/programs/publications/reports/2009-01.pdf?ref=lorcandempsey.net) \[pdf\], and readers may also be interested in our [Public/Private Mass Digitization Agreements resource list](https://www.oclc.org/programs/ourwork/collectivecoll/massdigresourcelist.htm?ref=lorcandempsey.net).