ANN ARBOR, Mich., March 28, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- ProQuest business unit Serials Solutions and HathiTrust today announced an agreement to enable full-text search of the entire HathiTrust collection of digitized scholarly books from the Summon(TM) web-scale discovery service.

By Anonymous Oh, Pooh!! This issue contains a very well-thought-out, carefully researched, cautionary article on the legal status and future of Google Book Search ("Good and Evil in the Garden of Digitization: Google and Fair Use" by Wallace Koehler, pp. 24-27, 57).

"A Book of Practical Recipes For The Housewife" is suddenly a hot property.

By Sherman, Will MANY PREDICT THAT THE DIGITAL AGE WILL WIPE PUBLIC BOOKSHELVES CLEAN, AND PERMANENTLY END THE CENTURIES-OLD ERA OF LIBRARIES. TECHNOLOGY'S BAFFLING PROWESS AND PROGRESS EVEN HAS ONE LIBRARIAN PREDICTING THE INSTITUTION'S DEMISE (BLAKE, 2005). He could be right.

By Doreen Carvajal In the early stages of its planning, the European Digital Library held the promise of a counterstrike to Google domination of digital archives through the search engine's vast book search project and powerful alliances with American universities.