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Re: Nunberg and comments

A piece by Nunberg on this topic also appeared in the Chronicle 
today (with a comment by me):

Google's Book Search: A Disaster for Scholars Geoffrey Nunberg 
gets lost in the metadata of digital books.

Sandy Thatcher
Penn State University Press



>For those who have not been following this exchange about the
>metadata for Google Book Search, this post and the comments,
>especially the one by Jon Orwent of Google, are provocative and
>useful.  Here is the shortened link:
>
>http://bit.ly/Eg7OX
>
>As I have been following this topic, I have wondered how the
>library community thinks of Google's strategy and vision.  Does
>G's strategy get us to what more and more people are calling a
>"universal library" or is it something else?  And if something
>else, how to characterize it?
>
>Joe Esposito