Open Library

Aaron Swartz

opening up libraries

research in the Google Generation

Amazon?

OCLC?

OPACs?

Open Library

a wiki withone page per book

quick facts

• six people (distributed)

• Internet Archive in San Francisco

• not-for-profit

• foundation + government funding

• starting with monographs

publishers: ONIX• HaperCollins• Simon and Schuster• Random House• Cambridge University Press• Penguin• WIley• Thomas Nelson• O’Reilly• Elseveier

libraries: MARC• Library of Congress• Montana State• UNC• Drexel• University of Toronto• MBL/WHOI• Oregon State• Washington Sate• Talis

and you?

book reviewers

• New York Times

• Harper’s

• New York Review of Books

• Reader’s Catalog

openlibrary.org