NY Times editorial on Google's book scanning

[Sloan, Bernie]

Today's NY Times has an editorial on Google's recently announced plans
to digitize the collections of several major research libraries.

The editorial notes, in part: "The idea of making books available online
is not new, but this plan represents an enormous shift in scale, so
enormous that if it is carried out successfully, it may redefine the
nature of the Internet and the university" and concludes by saying: "The
Google project will enhance the usefulness of the books it encompasses,
but it in no way will render them obsolete."

Full text available at: http://tinyurl.com/3l9p7 

Bernie Sloan
Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO
University of Illinois Office for Planning and Budgeting
616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
Champaign, IL  61820

Phone: (217) 333-4895
Fax:   (217) 265-0454
E-mail: bernies at uillinois.edu