Librarians, books, and digitization

One of our members brought this to my attention: an article in yesterday's New York Times about librarians who are turning down digitization assistance from Google and Microsoft to sign on instead with the Open Content Alliance.

Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web
By KATIE HAFNER
Published: October 22, 2007

Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft to scan their books into computer databases, saying they are put off by restrictions these companies want to place on the new digital collections.
http://tinyurl.com/39vmgw

What's a Dollar Worth?

What's a Dollar Worth?
http://woodrow.mpls.frb.fed.us/research/data/us/calc/

This site by the Federal Bank of Minneapolis presents a consumer price index calculator. What would an item or service purchased in 2006 be worth in 19?? dollars? Enter years as 4 digits (1913 through 2006). Enter dollar amount without commas or $ sign in box on first line. Click Calculate button to compute dollar amount shown on second line.

Related site: http://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/cpicalc.pl
Consumer Price Index Inflation Calculator

From site-of-the-day

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