This week’s news bytes were hand-picked from the updates at ResourceShelf:

The launch of Aardvark — a large-scale social search engine

The launch of Google Buzz — Google’s alternative to Facebook and Twitter?

Publishers have gained some leverage to set their own e-book prices

The British Library will give free access to 65,000 rare first editions of 19th century fiction

100,000th record entered into the WorldCat Digital Collection Gateway

Findings of the Pew Internet Project on social media — blogging on the decline among the young