[Web4lib] RE: Re: RE: More on the Open Content Alliance

[Richard Wiggins]

I remind you, sir, that at the same conference I spoke in favor of the
Google Print project.   I merely reported what a concerned attendee
asked.  You are free to respond to his legitimate concern, or
over-dramatize your response, at your pleasure.

/rich

On 11/1/05, Lars Aronsson <lars at aronsson.se> wrote:
> Richard Wiggins wrote:
>
> > Indeed, someone in the audience during a panel discussion on
> > Google Print at the recent Internet Librarian conference raised
> > a related concern:  What happens when libraries participating in
> > the project begin to feel shelf space pressures?  I asked if he
> > was concerned a la NIcholson Baker w/r/t libraries shedding
> > newspaper collections after they are microfilmed or digitized.
> > He said that was exactly his concern.
>
> Sorry, I don't follow.  How would this "shelf space pressure"
> relate to Google's activities?  Should we burn Google now so that
> libraries are forced to keep everything?  Or should Google hurry
> up to scan everything before these crazy libraries throw it away?
>
> By the way, libraries that are concerned with Google's secrecy
> should become role models by joining the Open Content Alliance, or
> by unilaterally adopting similar principles of openness.  There
> are far too many libraries (especially in Europe) who don't allow
> free copying of the out-of-copyright books that they have
> digitized.  Useful high resolution scanned images and OCR texts
> are all too often hidden behind web designs that are hard to use.
>
> If everybody went open, we wouldn't see closed-minded declarations
> such as http://gallica.bnf.fr/les_droits.htm
>
>
> --
>  Lars Aronsson (lars at aronsson.se)
>  Project Runeberg - free Nordic literature - http://runeberg.org/
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