[Web4lib] A Delicious Future for Libraries?

[Peter Morville]

That's a good clarification Karen. Of course, providing access to degraded
(but readable) versions of public domain items will be a wonderful cultural
contribution. For many people around the world, this will be much better
than nothing. Also, I'm optimistic that copyright law and the publishing
industry's business models will evolve in a positive direction. So, in the
long run, I expect the line between index and library to blur.


Peter Morville
President, Semantic Studios
http://semanticstudios.com
http://findability.org



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[mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of Karen Coyle
Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 1:38 PM
To: Peter Morville
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Subject: Re: [Web4lib] A Delicious Future for Libraries?

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:
>
>	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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