Does Google Book Scanning Devalue Libraries?

[Philip Davis <pmd8@cornell.edu>]

In an equally compelling comment to Rick Anderson's Google Book 
Settlement, Todd Carpenter argues that book scanning has devalued 
libraries and that university librarians (especially those who 
led the flock into the agreement with Google) should not start 
playing victim.

"to start complaining that the work is going to only provide 
Google with an unencumbered monopoly on the world's greatest 
library ever compiled seems to me the worst form of 
Monday-morning quarterbacking. It is hardly as if the various 
participating libraries weren't sitting at the table and taking 
these decisions about what would happen, when and how."

see:
http://j.mp/euOBt2