Open Library Set to Challenge WorldCat (subscription required)
An interesting article from the February 22 edition of the Chronicle for Higher Education:
At only 21, Aaron Swartz is attempting to turn the library world upside down. He is taking on the subscription-based WorldCat, the largest bibliographic database on the planet, by building a free online book catalog that anyone can update. But some young librarians are rallying around the precocious entrepreneur because his work may make their collections more visible on the Web. The new catalog project, Open Library, is set to go live in early March with records on 20 million books… Chronicle of Higher Education, February 22. http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i24/24a01101.htm
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