[Web4lib] A Delicious Future for Libraries?

[Karen Coyle]

I think that this statement is not true:

"The collections of the University of Michigan, Harvard University, 
Stanford University, the New York Public Library, and Oxford University 
will be accessible to anyone, anytime, anywhere. This is amazing. The 
world’s greatest works of art, history, science, engineering, law, and 
literature are about to join the public Web. "

The collections are not joining the web, and the collections are not 
accessible. You can do *discovery* through Google, but good luck 
borrowing the book. Public Domain items may be available in their 
entirety, but in a very degraded form for using or reading. Remember, 
Google is creating an index, not e-books, and not a library.

kc

Peter Morville wrote:

>Some thoughts about the future of librarianship:
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>	Ambient Findability: Libraries at the Crossroads of Ubiquitous
>Computing and the Internet
>	http://www.infotoday.com/online/nov05/morville.shtml
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>I'd love to hear reactions whether positive or critical or both. Thanks!
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>Peter Morville
>President, Semantic Studios
>http://semanticstudios.com
>http://findability.org
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