Google to scan major libraries
p2pnet.net News:- The full libraries at Michigan and Stanford universities, as well as archives at Harvard, Oxford and the New York Public Library, are to be digitized by Google.
“Online pages from scanned books will not have adverts but will have links to online store Amazon,” the BBC has the company as saying.
"The goal of the project is to unlock the wealth of information that is offline and bring it online,” according to Susan Wojcicki, Google ‘s director of product management.
There will also be links to public libraries so books can be borrowed.
Google won’t be paid for providing for the links, says the Beeb, going on to quote John Wilkin, a University of Michigan librarian working with Google, as saying:
“This is the day the world changes. It will be disruptive because some people will worry that this is the beginning of the end of libraries. But this is something we have to do to revitalise the profession and make it more meaningful."
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wealth of information - Google to scan famous libraries, BBC News Online, December 14, 2004
December 14th, 2004 at 4:30 pm
google is turning into a gutenberg press of the digital age, digitizing some of the great libraries of the world. With google search power, the dewey decimal system will become a curiosity.
December 14th, 2004 at 5:16 pm
Dewey Decimal System?!?
…this is going to make The Library of Congress Classification System (an alphanumeric system) irrelevant and laughable!
December 15th, 2004 at 4:47 am
Wrong.
Google has yet to achieve anything while the gutenberg project already has more than 13 000 eBooks produced by hundreds of volunteers.
All may be freely downloaded and read, and redistributed for non-commercial use.
http://www.gutenberg.org/
They don’t try to sell you something or make money on your back.