Ann Arbor field trip, mass digitization symposium

I have written up a travel log describing my experiences at the recent mass digitization symposium in Ann Arbor. From the text:

  In short, the symposium facilitated quite a number of presentations and panel discussions about mass digitization.
  Discussion topics ranged from mass digitization's impacts on libraries to possibilities for scholarship to changes in
  changes in publishing to economic effects to public policy issues. Most of the discussions were framed by the Google
  Print project, and just about everybody provided their point of view regarding the effect of Google on the academy...

  ... After the time of mass digitization a library's collection will not be as important as it is today.  Everybody will be carrying the collection around in their pocket. Instead what people will need are sets of services -- tools -- to apply against the collections making the content more useful. In a digital environment the things of traditional librarianship (books) will give way to their content and this makes services increasingly important...

  http://infomotions.com/musings/mass-digitization/

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Eric Morgan