[Web4lib] Google Book Library

[Joshua Daniel Franklin]

On 12/4/05, Kham Mai Nguyen wrote:
> Hi, you here may have already thought about what I am to say. Google is digitizing books
> on a big scale. Google guys are computer experts but not necessarily have taken library
> science classes.

I haven't read John Battelle's _The_Search_, but I found this quote
in a recent review very interesting:

http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2005/0,4814,106331,00.html

> In short, the search engine of the future isn't really a search engine as we know it. It's more
> like an intelligent agent -- or, as [Google co-founder] Larry Page told me, a reference
> librarian with complete mastery of the entire corpus of human knowledge.

Sounds like Patrick Wilson to me. I think they do know about librarians.