Wire-story (via Salon) on an IP summit where the head of Napster addressed the American Library Association. The Napstroid’s chest-thumping (or at least the part the stringer decided to quote) is pretty predictable, but the interesting thing is the P2P filesharing system that’s being proposed to augment interloan services.

Librarians have begun floating the idea of Docster, a Napster-like system wherein documents requested at separate branches could be scanned once and shared via a computer network.

The interlibrary loan system currently in place requires documents be re-scanned each time an individual requests to view them. This allows libraries an effective, but labor-intensive method of servicing the public.

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