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Posted by Theo Luke, YouTube
partnerships, EMEA

1957 was a very special year for the British Monarchy. It had
already become an annual tradition for the monarch to issue a
Christmas message to people in the United Kingdom and around the
world. But fifty years ago this Christmas, Queen Elizabeth II's
message was televised for the first time.

In her broadcast, the Queen spoke about the technological
developments that allowed her image to appear in people's homes
around the nation, saying that "I very much hope that this new
medium will make my Christmas message more personal and direct.
That it is possible for some of you to see me today is just another
example of the speed at which things are changing all around
us."

This Christmas, fifty years later, we are thrilled to say that the
British Monarchy is embracing another new technology by launching
onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://www.youtube.com/theroyalchannel" >The
Royal Channel on YouTube. By setting up the first ever channel
from a monarchy, the Queen joins other world leaders including the
French President onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://www.youtube.com/nicolassarkozy"
>Nicolas Sarkozy and the

onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)"
href="http://www.youtube.com/downingst" >British
Government in using online video to communicate with people
around the globe.

Right now, you can visit The Royal Channel to see href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBRP-o6Q85s" >that first 1957
broadcast, along with other rare and previously unreleased
archive footage. And at around 3pm BST on Christmas Day, href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0nmkYGCljE" >this year's
Christmas broadcast from the Queen appeared on YouTube as well
as on television.

We're delighted to welcome the Queen to the YouTube community,
and hope that you enjoy the unseen treasures on her channel as much
as we have.

Update:
Linked directly to the 2007 Christmas Broadcast

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Posted by Christian DiCarlo, Content
Partnerships Team, Google Scholar

Recently I’ve been working with libraries on something we’re
excited to announce for Google Scholar users. Libraries are
fantastic repositories of scholarship, and we want to make them as
visible and accessible as possible. We’ve just expanded our Library
Search program in Google
Scholar to help people around the world find works of their
interest in local libraries. That program now includes links to
libraries in Hungary, href="http://www.gegnir.is" >Iceland, href="http://libnet1.ac.il/~libnet/uli/" >Israel, href="http://opac.porbase.org" >Portugal, href="http://websok.libris.kb.se/websearch/form?lang=sve" >Sweden,
and Switzerland.

If for example you're a student in Sweden searching Google
Scholar for href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=chemistry" >[chemistry],
you can click the “Library Search (Sweden)” link underneath the
book titled "Principles of polymer chemistry" to see the
list of Swedish libraries that hold the book. Then just pay a visit
to one of those libraries to reserve it. If you’re outside Sweden,
you can activate the Swedish library catalog links from the
"Library Links" box in the "Scholar
preferences" by searching for Sweden.

If you are a library patron and can't find the books from your
library, ask your local library to participate in this program. If
you are a librarian and would like to work with us to help users
find scholarly literature in your library, please href="mailto:scholar-library@google.com" >contact us.

We'd like to thank our union catalog partners for helping to
make this happen. Here's hoping researchers worldwide will use
it to find and build on the amazing collections in the world's
libraries.

Tags: , Christian, content, DiCarlo, google, Partnerships, Posted, Team

Posted by Laura DeBonis, Library
Partnerships Director, Google Book Search team

On Monday, University of Michigan President Mary Sue Coleman gave a
href="http://www.umich.edu/pres/speeches/060206google.html" >moving
speech to the AAP (American Association of Publishers) about
the reasons why the university is participating in the href="http://books.google.com/" >Google Book Search href="http://books.google.com/googlebooks/library.html" >Library
Project. She explained how copyright law supports fair use, and
eloquently observed that the loss of books, whether due to natural
disasters or inevitable physical decay, is a significant cultural
loss.

"Nature, politics and war have always been the mortal enemies
of written works," she said. "Most recently, Hurricane
Katrina dealt a blow to the libraries of the Gulf Coast. At Tulane
University, the main library sat in nine feet of water — water
that soaked the valuable Government Documents collection: more than
750,000 items — one of the largest collections of government
materials in Louisiana — 90 percent of it now lost."

President Coleman went on to note that together with Google
"the University of Michigan is involved in one of the most
extensive preservation projects in world history. … By digitizing
today's books, through our own efforts and in partnership with
others, we are protecting the written word for all
time."

In the recent debate over making books discoverable online, the
value of preserving our culture, knowledge and history has often
been ignored. We're honored to partner with institutions like
the University of Michigan that staunchly defend this shared
heritage.

You can watch href="http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=Google book search university michigan&so=0" >
her speech on Google Video.

Update: Reposted with
working links and Google Video link.

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