Wednesday, November 09, 2005

1750 Google Print

Google Print. You won’t find a better wrap up than Charles Bailey’s bibliography. Still no comment by the American Library Association, however. He's good. He'd find it. They are busy with bigger fish, you know--Bush, torture, Patriot Act--all that library stuff.
Posted by Norma at 11/09/2005 02:12:00 PM

2 comments:

Bonita said...

I read a few articles - in the Washington Post, Mary Sue Coleman wrote:

Throughout history, most of the world's printed knowledge has been created, preserved and used only by society's elites -- those for whom education and power meant access to the great research libraries. Now, groundbreaking tools for mass digitization are poised to change that paradigm. We believe the result can be a widening of human conversation comparable to the emergence of mass literacy itself."

I agree with her - information accessibility on the internet should be available for everyone.

11/09/2005 6:51 PM
Norma said...

It is every librarian's hope that we can strike a balance. Digital information isn't permanent, and can disappear at the whim of the host. Although we had fragile and combustible paper in the past, even cheap dime novels of the 19th century are readable. We really have no idea where we're going. Google, at least by digitizing books but not destroying them, may actually preserve and broaden content.

11/10/2005 5:50 AM

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