More on Google digitization and Europe

[Sloan, Bernie]

"Nineteen European national libraries have joined forces against a
planned communications revolution by Internet search giant Google to
create a global virtual library, organizers said Wednesday. The 19
libraries are backing instead a multi-million euro counter-offensive by
European nations to put European literature online."

Full text at:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1566717,00.html 

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