This isn't really news considering more than 120 news sources (according to, what else, Google) have picked up the story from the AP source last night. Here's one version but this story isn't hard to find. This version is CNet posting a New York Times article which is handy as the NYT requires registration.
"It may be only a step on a long road toward the long-predicted global virtual library. But the collaboration of Google and research institutions that also include Harvard, the University of Michigan, Stanford and the New York Public Library is a major stride in an ambitious Internet effort by various parties. The goal is to expand the Web beyond its current valuable, if eclectic, body of material and create a digital card catalog and searchable library for the world's books, scholarly papers and special collections."
This is all good, isn't it?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
2 comments:
I'm not so sure about it being all good. Others have commented on a for-profit company's control of so much public domain material. I'm gerally in favor of pubic-private ventures. But I don't really understand the structure of this one. I don't understand how it's going to work. Google Print just has a dummy of a public domain work, and the rest of the model there is definitely for profit. I was underwhelmed by Open WorldCat via Google. I'm a librarian. When I want to search catalog records, I want catalog records.
I forgot to mention Googlezon--visit http://www.letitblog.com/epic/--my thanks to the Shifted Librarian for the post.
Post a Comment