The evolving Google library

[bgsloan2@yahoo.com]

"To some, Google's mammoth book digitization project with 
university libraries is the ultimate combination of technology 
and scholarship, potentially making millions of volumes available 
to audiences that could never visit major research libraries in 
person. To others, the project represents a dangerous 
centralization and corporatization of content.  Complicating the 
debate (and obviously there are many viewpoints somewhere in 
between) has been an uncertainty about how Google would make the 
new library available. On Wednesday, Google and the University of 
Michigan announced new details -- and while the plan for pricing 
was still vague, the basics of the model became more clear."

http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2009/05/21/google

Bernie Sloan