UPDATE: Please use the updated version at
http://webpages.charter.net/tbob/medmss.html

Robert D. Peckham writes:

The

Catalogue of Digitized Medieval Manuscripts
http://manuscripts.cmrs.ucla.edu/

shows that there are now connections with nearly 2300 mss entirely digitized which can be consulted on line. This is a wonderful team effort, clearly illustrating the virtue of work which aims to advance the scholarly community.

I am proceeding with my project, which will be an extension and renovation of what is now a page in the Andy Holt Virtual Library: "Web Access for Manuscript-based Textual Scholarship". I will also extend units on Paleography and Codicology as well as other aspects. There is much to do facilitating the location and consultation of medieval manuscripts, even where it is a question of fragments, pages or single illustrations. Here is my unsorted collection so far:

Accès aux catalogues numérisés (BNF manuscript descriptions)
http://www.bnf.fr/PAGES/zNavigat/frame/catalogues_num.htm

Catalogo aperto dei manoscritti Malatestiani
http://www.malatestiana.it/manoscritti/manoscritti.htm

Manuscrits produits par le scriptorium de la cathédrale Sainte-Cécile
http://www.manuscrits.mediatheque-albi.fr/

Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Dresden: Manuscripts collection
http://www.slub-dresden.de/en/collections/manuscripts-and-rare-prints/manuscripts-collection/#c5233

Codices Electronici Sangallenses (CESG) – Bibliothèque virtuelle (250+ mss)
http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/fr/

http://www.wulfila.be/

Codices Electronici Sangallenses (CESG) – Bibliothèque virtuelle
http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/fr/index.htm

Digital Scriptorium
http://scriptorium.columbia.edu/

wulfila project (Gothic)
http://www.wulfila.be/

MANUS - Censimento dei manoscritti delle biblioteche italiane
http://manus.iccu.sbn.it/

Sagñanet - Íslenskar fornbókmenntir
http://sagnanet.is/

Manuscripta Mediaevalia
http://www.manuscripta-mediaevalia.de/

Manuscriptorium
http://www.manuscriptorium.com

Codices.ch (medieval mss in Switzerland)
http://www.codices.ch/

Manuscrits médiévaux des monastères et chapitres vosgiens. Catalogues et inventaires
http://www.univ-nancy2.fr/MOYENAGE/ArtemTravauxenLigne/TheseMJGG/index.htm

Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections
http://www.mmdc.nl/static/site/

Leaves of Gold - Treasures of Manuscript Illumination from Philadelphia Collections
http://www.leavesofgold.org/

Medieval Manuscripts Digital Collection (Iowa Digital Library)
http://digital.lib.uiowa.edu/cdm4/index_mmc.php?CISOROOT=/mmc

St. Laurentius Digital Manuscript Library
http://laurentius.ub.lu.se/

Fifty original leaves from medieval manuscripts, Western Europe, XII-XVI century (Case Western Reserve)
http://library.case.edu/digitalcase/CollectionDetail.aspx?PID=ksl:ege


Die Handschriften des Mittelalters der Universitätsbibliothek Salzburg: Handschriftenkatalog online
http://www.ubs.sbg.ac.at/sosa/webseite/hsskat.htm

Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music
http://www.diamm.ac.uk/index.html

Distributed Digital Library of Chant Manuscript Images
http://www.scribeserver.com/NEUMES/distributed_image_library/index.html

NUCMC : the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections
http://signets.bnf.fr/html/categories/c_091manuscrits_cat.html#4077

PONTIFICALIA: Repertory of Latin Manuscript Pontificals and Benedictionals
http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/4406/1/PONTIFICALIA.pdf

Erlebnisraum Altes Buch ist eine Initiative der UB-Graz, Abteilung für Sondersammlungen.
http://alo.uibk.ac.at/webinterface/library/COLLECTION_V01?objid=1081

Large Digital Libraries of western manuscripts
http://wiki.netbib.de/coma/DigitaleHandschriften

The Aberdeen Bestiary
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/bestiary/

Ee.3.59: The Life of King Edward the Confessor
http://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/MSS/Ee.3.59/

The Bayeux Tapestry Digital Edition
http://www.sd-editions.com/bayeux/index.html

York Doomsday Project
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/yorkdoom/intro.htm

William Blake Archive
http://www.blakearchive.org/blake/

Schoenberg Center for Electronic Text & Image (Penn)
http://sceti.library.upenn.edu/ljscollection/index.cfm

Medieval and Renaissance Illuminated Manuscripts from Western Europe (NYPL)
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?col_id=173

telma. traitement électronique des manuscrits et des archives
http://www.cn-telma.fr/

The Schøyen Collection - 720 Manuscripts Spanning 5000 years
http://www.schoyencollection.com/

Le Glossarium de Du Cange en ligne
http://www.cn-telma.fr/veille/nouveau-corpus-ducange/

Early Manuscripts at Oxford University
http://image.ox.ac.uk/list?collection=magdalen

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library (with full descriptions, Yale)
http://www.library.yale.edu/beinecke/manuscript/prelist.htm

Catalonian Manuscripts
http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/catalan/

Digitization Projects in Austria, Germany, and Switzerland
http://employees.csbsju.edu/mheintzelman/German_Digitization_Projects.htm

DScriptorium
http://toisondor.byu.edu/dscriptorium/

Laures Rare-Book Database & Virtual Library (Kirishitan Bunko, Sophia Univarsity, Tokyo, Japan)
http://133.12.23.145:8080/html/index.html

Browse Lists of Digitized Manuscripts (CORSAIR - 28,049 images, Pierpoint Morgan Library)
http://utu.morganlibrary.org/medren/BrowseBooleanCombined.cfm

Manuscript Collections - The Houghton Library (Harvard)
http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/early_manuscripts/about.html#collection



Digital Medievl Manuscripts at Houghton Library
http://hcl.harvard.edu/libraries/houghton/collections/early_manuscripts/index.html

Handschriften – digital (Universität Heidelberg)
http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/digi/handschriften.html

The Goodspeed Manuscript Collection
http://goodspeed.lib.uchicago.edu/digitalproject.php

Medieval Manuscripts on the Web
http://faculty.arts.ubc.ca/sechard/512digms.htm

Digitalisierung der 848 deutschsprachigen Palatina-Handschriften in der Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/digi/palatina.html

Münchener Digitalisierungszentrum (many manuscripts)
http://www.muenchener-digitalisierungszentrum.de/

Manuscrits enluminés des bibliothèques de France
http://www.manuscritsenlumines.fr/

Irish Script on Screen
http://www.isos.dias.ie/

P E C I A : Le manuscrit médiéval ~ The medieval manuscript
http://blog.pecia.fr/

Spätmittelalterliche Bilderhandschriften aus der Bibliotheca Palatina – digital
http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/helios/fachinfo/www/kunst/digi/welcome.html

Medieval Manuscripts in the National Library of Medicine
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/medieval/medievalhome.html

Mass Digitization of UK Manuscripts
http://www.canterburytalesproject.org/massdigit/links.html

Open Directory Books of Hours: Individual Manuscripts
http://www.dmoz.org/Society/History/By_Time_Period/Middle_Ages/Religion/Christianity/Books_of_Hours/Individual_Manuscripts/

Facsimiles of Manuscripts Illuminated in the British Isles (Staint Louis Univ.)
http://www.slu.edu/libraries/pius/archives/digcoll/mssexhibit07/

Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum By British Museum Dept. of Manuscripts, Harry Leigh Douglas Ward, John Alexander Herbert Published by Printed by order of the Trustees, 1893
http://books.google.com/books?id=p-gtAAAAIAAJ


Inventaire de la "librairie" de Philippe Le Bon (1420)
By Georges Doutrepont
Published by Kiessling et cie, 1906
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized May 31, 2007 191 pages
http://books.google.com/books?id=asE1AAAAMAAJ

A Summary Catalogue of Western Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford
By Bodleian Library, Richard William Hunt, Falconer Madan, P. D. Record, Herbert Henry Edmund Craster
Published by Clarendon Press, 1922
http://books.google.com/books?id=rOQtAAAAIAAJ

Catalogue of Manuscripts Preserved in the Chapter Library of Worcester Cathedral
By Worcester Cathedral. Library, John Kestell Floyer, Sidney Graves Hamilton, Worcestershire Historical Society, Worcester Cathedral
Compiled by John Kestell Floyer
Edition: revised
Published by Printed for the Worcestershire historical Society, by James Parker and Co., 1906
http://books.google.com/books?id=3lQ8AAAAMAAJ


A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Gonville and Caius College
By Gonville and Caius College, Gonville and Caius College Library, Montague Rhodes James, Library
Published by University Press, 1908
http://books.google.com/books?id=0estAAAAIAAJ


A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts in the Library of Clare College, Cambridge: Cambridge
By Clare College (University of Cambridge). Library, Montague Rhodes James
Published by University Press, 1905
51 pages
http://books.google.com/books?id=lvYtAAAAIAAJ


A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity Hall: [Cambridge].
By Trinity Hall (University of Cambridge). Library, Montague Rhodes James
Published by University press, 1907
46 pages
http://books.google.com/books?id=j_QtAAAAIAAJ


Catalogue of a Portion of the Valuable Collection of Manuscripts, Early Printed Books, &c: Of the Late William Morris, of Kelmscott House, Hammersmith
By William Morris
Published by Dryden press, J. Davy and sons, 1898
Original from the University of Michigan
Digitized Oct 9, 2006
118 pages
http://books.google.com/books?id=20YaAAAAMAAJ


A Descriptive Catalogue of the Manuscripts in the Library of Pembroke College, Cambridge: with a hand list of the printed books to the year 1500
By Pembroke College (University of Cambridge). Library, Montague Rhodes James, Pembroke College (Cambridge, Ellis Hovell Minns
Published by University press, 1905
314 pages
http://books.google.com/books?id=GvQtAAAAIAAJ


Catalogue of the Sanskrit Manuscripts in the British Museum: By Cecil Bendall
By British Museum Dept. of Oriental Printed Books and Manuscripts, Cecil Bendall
Published by Gilbert and Rivington, 1902
Original from the New York Public Library
Digitized Apr 2, 2008
261 pages
http://books.google.com/books?id=IyEYAAAAYAAJ


Catalogue des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Saint-Geneviève
By Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Charles Kohler, Charles Alfred Kohler, France Ministère de l'instruction publique
Published by E. Plon, Nourrit et cie., 1893
Item notes: v.1
Original from Harvard University
Digitized Jun 8, 2007
http://books.google.com/books?id=OkEDAAAAYAAJ


Inventaire des manuscrits de la Bibliothèque nationale: Fonds de Cluni
By Bibliothèque nationale (France). Département des manuscrits, Léopold Delisle
Published by H. Champion, 1884
Original from Oxford University
Digitized Aug 29, 2007
413 pages
http://books.google.com/books?id=WHwNAAAAQAAJ


Search OCLC WorldCat (Manuscript materials in the National Union Catalog
http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/oclcsearch.html

National Union Catalog of Manuscripts
http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/

Scriptorium: Medieval and Early Modern Manuscripts Online (Cambridge U)
http://scriptorium.english.cam.ac.uk/

British Museum Digital Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts
http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm

Electronic Access to Medieval Manuscripts
http://www.hmml.org/eamms/

The James Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts (Trinity College Cambridge)
http://rabbit.trin.cam.ac.uk/James/

Listing of Medieval Manuscript Microforms (Special Collections and Rare Books, University of Missouri MA Libraries)
http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/specialcollections/medievalmf.php

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford - Electronic Catalogue of Medieval & Renaissance Manuscripts
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/medieval/

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford - Western manuscripts to c. 1500
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/medieval/

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford Online catalogues of Western Manuscripts - Search
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/wmss/online/search.html

Color images from manuscripts in the University of Kentucky Special Collections Library
http://toisondor.byu.edu/dscriptorium/ukentucky/uky.html

RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY. Columbia University
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/rare/images/

PORTAL FOR FACSIMILE EDITIONS OF MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS
http://www.umilta.net/facsimiles.html

Facsimiles of Illuminated Manuscripts in Special Collections (U. of Arizona)
http://www.library.arizona.edu/exhibits/illuman/9-10_08.html

Digital Collections - University of South Carolina Libraries
http://digital.tcl.sc.edu/cdm4/results.php?CISOOP1=any&CISOFIELD1=CISOSEARCHALL&CISOROOT=/EMC&CISOBOX1=no

Princeton - Getty funds medieval manuscript catalog
http://www.princeton.edu/pr/pwb/99/1011/getty.shtml

Database of Alchemical Manuscripts
http://www.levity.com/alchemy/alch_mss.html


Medieval Manuscripts Sorted Alphanumerically by Manuscript Number
http://www.lib.unc.edu/reference/microforms/medieval.html

Case Western Reserve Brooks Library - Illustrated Manuscripts
http://digital.lib.cwu.edu/cgi-bin/library?site=localhost&a=p&p=about&c=illumina&l=en&w=utf-8

University of Libraries: Digital Collections
http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm4/browse.php?CISOROOT=/mss

A Catalog of Illuminated Manuscript Facsimiles in the Western Michigan University Libraries
http://www.wmich.edu/library/special/collections/facsimilies.php

English Medieval Manuscripts on Microform (Michigan State Univ. Libraries)
http://guides.lib.msu.edu/page.phtml?page_id=1534

Mystere dou jour dou jugement: Besançon, Bibliothèque Municipale ms. [M] 579
http://toisondor.byu.edu/dscriptorium/jugement/jugement.html

French Studies > Manuscripts - intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=201036

German Studies > Manuscripts - intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=201037

Italian Studies > Manuscripts - intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=201039

Celtic Studies > Manuscripts - intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=200756

Spanish Studies > Manuscripts - intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=201038

Portuguese Studies > Manuscripts - intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=201043

Russian Studies > Manuscripts - intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=201352

Birchbark Literacy from Medieval Rus: Contents and Contexts
http://gramoty.ru/

Scandinavian Studies > Manuscripts - intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=201044

Other European Studies > Manuscripts - intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/artsandhumanities/cgi-bin/browse.pl?id=201046

A Census of Medieval Manuscripts in South Carolina Collections
http://www.sc.edu/library/spcoll/medievalmss/medievalmss.html

Liber Floridus - enluminures des manuscrits médiévaux conservés dans les bibliothèques de l'enseignement supérieur
http://liberfloridus.cines.fr/


Die digitale Handschriftenbibliothek Köln - Codices Electronici Ecclesiae Coloniensis (CEEC)
http://www.dombibliothek-koeln.de/ceec/ceec_start.html

List of illuminated Anglo-Saxon manuscripts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_illuminated_Anglo-Saxon_manuscripts

List of illuminated manuscripts (Wikipedia)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_illuminated_manuscripts

Choix de miniatures des manuscrits del'Université de Liège
http://www.libnet.ulg.ac.be/enlumin/enl01.htm

Medieval Manuscript Manual
http://web.ceu.hu/medstud/manual/MMM/index.html

Images from Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts
http://campus.belmont.edu/honors/ASImages/ASMss.htm

Pages from the Past: A Legacy of Medieval Books in South Carolina Collections
http://www.pagesfromthepast.org/

Le Fonds ancien de la Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon
http://www.bm-lyon.fr/trouver/Fonds_ancien/Fonds_ancien.htm

Handschriftencensus
http://www.handschriftencensus.de/

MEDIEVAL MANUSCRIPTS OF CANON LAW AND ROMAN LAW (locating)
http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~jurarom/manuscr/

Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru The National Library of Wales - Manuscripts
http://www.llgc.org.uk/index.php?id=126


Bibliographie zu mittelalterlichen Handschriften in Österreich - Bibliography on Medieval Manuscripts in Austria
http://www.ksbm.oeaw.ac.at/lit/frame.htm

Manuscrits médiévaux messins numérisés
http://bm.metz.fr/clientbookline/Mediatheque/index.html

Miscellaneous Digital Facsimile Collections
http://medievalwriting.50megs.com/links/miscmsslinks.htm

Manuscritos medievales (Biblioteca Virtual de Miguel Cervantes)
http://www.cervantesvirtual.com/FichaMateria.html?Ref=44201

Mandragore, base des manuscrits enluminés de la B.n.F.
http://mandragore.bnf.fr/html/accueil.html

La Cantilène de Sainte Eulalie (ms with java modern French translation)
http://www.valenciennes.fr/index.php?id=2316

Cours de paléographie - Archive du cours d'Arisitum
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/eric-camille.voirin/paleo/

A Hypertext Book of Hours
http://medievalist.net/hourstxt/home.htm

Roman de la Rose Digital Library
http://romandelarose.org/

Brut Chronicle
http://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/i/image/image-idx?c=brut&page=index


Fifty-one Leaves from Medieval Manuscripts (Cary Collection)
http://library.rit.edu/cary/cc_db/manuscripts/index.html

Le Moyen Âge en Lumière - Les Trésors des Bibliothèques en France
http://www.moyenageenlumiere.com/


John of Berry's Petites Heures, 14th Century. (BNF, LAT 18014)
http://www.bnf.fr/enluminures/manuscrits/aman9.htm


Katalog der Handschriften der Universitäts-Bibliothek in Heidelberg (Band 2): Die deutschen Pfälzer Handschriften des XVI. und XVII. Jahrhunderts der Universitäts-Bibliothek in Heidelberg. Mit einem Anhange: Die Handschriften der Batt´schen Bibliothek
http://diglit.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/Wille1903

Heidelberg, 1903

Bibliographische Information Alle zugehörigen BändeSammlung

Persistente URL: http://digi.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/diglit/Wille1903
URN: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-diglit-11436
(PDF, 55 MB)

(z. B.: IV, 145, xii)


Inhalt

* Deckblatt
* VII-XII Vorwort
* Titelblatt
* 2-148 I. Codices Palatini Germanici
* 150-162 II. Codices Heidelbergenses Battiani
* 163-190 Register
* 190 Nachträge und Verbesserungen



Medieval and Renaissance Studies (Digital Librarian)
http://www.digital-librarian.com/medieval.html

MS. GKS 1605 4° -CALENDARIUM * SPECULUM CONSCIENTIAE - PSALTERIUM LATINUM
http://www2.kb.dk/elib/mss/gks1605/


Electronic Beowulf
http://bookline-03.valenciennes.fr/bib/fondsvirtuels/Cataloguemanuscrits/introd.asp


Codex Gigas (National Library in Stockholm)
http://www.kb.se/codex-gigas/eng/


Die Nibelungen-Handschrift C digital
http://www.blb-karlsruhe.de/blb/blbhtml/nib/uebersicht.html

The Worcester Cathedral Fragments
http://www.scribeserver.com/NEUMES/worcester_fragments.htm

NKS 66 8º: Harpestræng: Liber Herbarum
http://base.kb.dk/manus_pub/cv/manus/ManusPage.xsql?nnoc=manus_pub&p_ManusId=87&p_PageNo=140%20recto&p_Lang=main&p_Mode=img


Finding Medieval Manuscripts - Discovery and Citation in the Digital Era
http://arts.anu.edu.au/medievalheritage/pearce/pearce.htm

Register of Australian Archives and Manuscripts
http://www.nla.gov.au/raam/



TBob

Robert D. Peckham, Ph.D
Professor of French
Chair, AATF Commission on Advocacy
Director, Muriel Tomlinson Language Resource Center
Director, Globe-Gate Intercultural Web Project
Director, Andy Holt Virtual Library
Department of Modern Foreign Languages
Univ. of Tennessee at Martin / Martin TN 38238
Email: bobp@utm.edu

From MEDTEXTL, re-posted with permission, thanks Bob!

http://bdmhistoricalrecords.identityservices.govt.nz/Home/

The historic data available for you to search is limited so that information relating to people who might still be alive, can be protected. Information available includes:

Births that occurred at least 100 years ago
Stillbirths that occurred at least 50 years ago
Marriages and eventually Civil Unions that occurred 80 years ago
Deaths that occurred at least 50 years ago or the deceased's date of birth was at least 80 years ago.

http://booksearch.blogspot.com/2009/03/bodleians-treasures-available-to-all.html

In 2004, Google began a partnership with Oxford University Library to scan mostly 19th century public domain books from its Bodleian library. Five years on, we're delighted to announce the end of this phase of our scanning with Oxford, our first European partner. Together, we have digitized and made available on Google Book Search many hundreds of thousands of public domain books from the Bodleian and other Oxford libraries, representing the bulk of their available public domain content.

published on Salon Jewish Studies Blog ( http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-xii.html)

1,045 meters of recovered inventory from the Cologne Historical Archive's collection (CHA) (Koelner Stadtanzeiger March 20, 2009 via Archivalia)
1045 meters of the (former) 27 shelf-kilometers Cologne Historical Archive inventory have been recovered. It seems little but means in figures that 1000 recovery tubs (each 1 m material), 20 lattice boxes (for wet material, each 1,5 m material) have been filled with findings from the rubble.
Among this were two Albertus Magnus handwritings, four of the Weinsberg books (16th century) und parts of the 550 Schreinsbücher (13th-18th century) also parts of the Ratsprotokolle (constitution and administration documents of the Imperial City from the Middle Ages until Early Modern Times). 50 outsized deeds, valuable individual pieces of the Haupturkundenarchiv (central deeds archive) were also recovered.
The discovered documents of modern times are mostly parts and pieces: personal papers of the former Lord Mayor Ernst Schwering and the city treasurer Billstein, inventory of Lord Majors Cologne after 1945, City Archive Porz (postwar period) and pieces of postwar municipal documents.

Listmembers may be interested in a new article on the Google Book
settlement by Professor James Grimmelmann of New York Law School,
who was a panel member at the March 13 Columbia Law School Google
Book conference. See James Grimmelmann, "How to Fix the Google
Search Settlement," Journal of Internet Law, Apr. 2009, at 1,

http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1022&context=james_grimmelmann

The article suggests some of the ideas that the library
associations might advocate in their brief to the court, and in
possible submissions to the Justice Department and the FTC.
Here is a summary of Prof. Grimmelmann's article:

Professor Grimmelmann recommends in his new article that the
proposed Google Book settlement agreement be modified before
court approval, and that the U.S. Department of Justice and
Federal Trade Commission regulate the resulting transaction.
Grimmelmann recommends approval of the settlement agreement, but
only after several modifications. These include:

*striking the "most favored nation" clause (section 3.8(a) of the
settlement agreement, available at
http://books.google.com/booksrightsholders/ ) that protects
Google's competitive position respecting orphan works;

*requiring the Book Rights Registry to offer future copyright
holders the same terms as provided under the settlement;

*mandating library and reader representation on the registry's
board;

*expressly authorizing the registry to negotiate with Google's
competitors in the digitization market;

*prohibiting Google from engaging in retail price discrimination
respecting digital books;

*incorporating express protections of reader privacy; and

*requiring free public access to the registry's database of
information respecting ownership of rights in the digitized
books, and to Google's database recording which digitized books
are available in print.

Grimmelmann also calls for imposition of an antitrust consent
decree on the registry and a grant of authority to the Justice
Department to monitor all registry contracts for potential
anticompetitive effect. Further, he recommends that the FTC
regulate Google to prevent price discrimination, privacy
breaches, and the imposition of onerous usage restrictions. Hat
tip to Chris Welch:

http://twitter.com/guppywon/statuses/1323802213

From liblicense-l

published on Salon Jewish Studies Blog ( http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-x.html)

"The black hole of history", Die Sueddeutsche focuses in the article Das Schwarze Loch der Geschichte (March 14, 2009) on different personal perspectives relating to the Cologne archive collapse (via Archivalia):
Ten days ago on a sunny day, Cologne sunk in darkest night: 65000 deeds, 26 shelf-kilometers files, 500000 photos, 780 bequests/personal paper collections – 1200 years old memory of the city was buried under rubble in a few seconds. (…)
Hans Bender is one of the 780 donors of his personal papers. For many years, he published the probably most important postwar literature-journal “Akzente”, besides prose, poetry and own works. 27000 documents of him, including letter exchanges with the whole postwar authors that were a comment to the federal republican literature, were stored in this archive. (…)
Dominik Haffner is one of the Marburg referenda says, while putting shredded pieces of a 17th century handwriting away, he does not believe that even 20% will be rescued. (…)
He and his colleagues are not to look that the material closely, because they are working against time: As soon as the wet material reaches air (out of the rubble), it must be brought to the freezing storage room within 14 hours, otherwise mildew will develop. (…)
Eberhard Illner, for all his interlocutors the archive is not visible anymore, but the former head of department can walk through it in his imagination. During the talk, he repeats that the papers of Hans Meyers were on the 3rd floor and Günter Wands’ papers on the 5th floor in the back. Illner (now archivist in Wuppertal) had worked in CHA for 22 years, he established four of the six stores, during the talk he starts crying several times. Since the beginning of 2008, he had noticed and reported defects and disruptions at the building without be taken serious. He now is called a denigrator of the “archival guild”, because he pointed out his information to the public after the collapse and is alleged to have broken his official discretion.

Koelner Stadtanzeiger reports on action force at the scene on March 20, 2009 (via Archivalia)
For the first time, since the collapse of the archive building in Cologne (CHA) on March 3rd, the rescue teams of the firefighter department, the volunteer firefighters and the Federal Agency for Technical Relief (THW) will take a one day break on Sunday. The work will be continued on Monday at 7 a.m., said Daniel Leupold from the firefighter department. On today’s Saturday, 60 supporters – like all past days – will be working until the onset of dark around 7 p.m.
Strenuously, they pull files, deeds and other valuable subjects belonging to the CHA inventory out of the rubble. On Friday, the supporters found much material from the 20th century, under it comments on the German Empire Constitution (Deutsche Reichsverfassung) dated 1918. On Thursday, 14 truck loadings had been recovered. In the storage hall (Cologne outside district) where the loadings of rubble and material are brought to, dozens of supporters are searching for material that is in a restorable condition.
The action force at the collapsed building needs to work carefully to minimize the risk of injury which is very high, says Leupold. So far two men were hit by stones: One man of the THW had a concrete piece slid against his leg, he got outpatient treatment. A stone hit the shoulder of a firefighter but recovered quick and returned to work.

Ausnahmsweise etwas Lesenswertes auf Deutsch dazu:

http://bibliothekarisch.de/blog/2009/03/20/das-dilemma-des-autor-google-verhaeltnisses/

published on Salon Jewish Studies Blog ( http://board-js.blogspot.com/2009/03/summary-cologne-archives-collapse-x.html)

"Ten times worse than in Weimar", Michael Knoche, director of Anna Amalia Library in Weimar, caught the speaker’s eye. (sueddeutsche.de March 19, 2009 via Archivalia)

…the state of the material is totally mixed. Some documents were covered and protected by the rubble others were destroyed by it.
Up to now, it is uncertain how much of the inventory can be rescued: Some experts assume 20%, optimists suspect 50%. The recurrence of both valuable Albertus Magnus handwritings gives hope. In any case, a majority of single pieces will be rescued rather than inventoried material groups. Scientific research will be made difficult thereby.
The general mindlessness dealing with our written cultural possessions must come to an end. The Elbe flood water in Dresden 2002, the fire in the Herzogin Anna Amalia Library 2004 and the Cologne Historical Archive building’s collapse 2009, obviously pandered by negligence, are three warning symbol (Menetekel); the Biblical king Belsazar only needed one to understand the warning.

The Irish government has announced plans to merge the National Archives of Ireland in Bishop Street, Dublin with the National Library of Ireland.

http://thesocietyofqualifiedarchivists.blogspot.com/2009/03/national-archives-of-ireland-falls.html