Google Books settlement demystified

ARL has put together an aptly named Guide for the Perplexed, a 23 page document that explains the impact of the Google Book settlement.

This is a topic that's been covered in recent Crimson articles in late October and this past week

NetLibrary Access Problem

Some patrons have had trouble getting access to Harvard's NetLibrary electronic books when they use Internet Explorer. Danielle Adams has found that the solution for IE users is to delete all their cookies. But some may not want to do this on their own computers, and our public workstations do not allow deleting cookies. Until NetLibrary fixes this problem, users can access the NetLibrary titles through Firefox.