On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 03:09, Karen Coyle <lists_at_kcoyle.net> wrote:
> Yet, once
> Google has scanned some percentage of books, that's all that most users will
> ever access. For those who tout that Google will provide greater access to
> the public, the truth is that they will provide greater access to some
> percentage of the world's books, and no access to the rest. Not that this is
> much worse than the fact that many books in libraries are hidden away as
> well.
If this is true, and I'm not sure I agree, then this is good news for
libraries; it gives you reason to continue and to fight the good
fight. If Google is sub-par then libraries can strive to be good
enough to be noticed and to be take seriously in this field. However,
I still think it's only a matter of a very short time before the tides
in this debacle will change again; don't think for a second that once
this deal goes through that it will be the last. The digital market is
exploding these days in digital books and journals, we're on the edge
between vinyl and CD's, and unless you can produce an excellent
collection of CD's ... Please hurry.
Kind regards,
Alex
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Received on Mon Mar 29 2010 - 16:25:10 EDT