Recent Google announcements

[Joseph Esposito <espositoj@gmail.com>]

I would be interested to know what people are thinking about the recent
Google announcements (Google Scholar, Google Print, etc.) and their impact
on the business of academic librarianship.  If there were a list called
"the meaning of Google," I would like to be on it.  Speculation appears to
be all over the place (what exactly is Google planning to do?  How will
this fit into emerging metadata schemes?  Will Google become the
"universal interface" for all research?  Is metasearch dead?  Will
enabling data harvesting by Google become a priority for publishers, and
if so, how wiil this affect the libraries that license content?).  There
appears to be a great deal to learn about this.  As they say at Starbucks,
make it a vente.

Joe Esposito