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

[Perry Willett]

And to respond to Mark's comments: they're not Google's
scanned books, they're ours. These are our collections, and
we take curatorial responsibility for both the print and
digital versions. If people want to use Google Print,
that's fine. Roy's point was that he thought that people
would be forced to use Google to see these books, and
that's just not true.

Perry

Perry Willett
Head, Digital Library Production Service
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University of Michigan
Ann Arbor MI 48109-1205
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Email: pwillett at umich.edu


>Perry,
>
>Being the devil's advocate here: why would I go to the U.
>Michigan website to look for Google's scanned books when
>I could go to Google's website and get the "internet" as
>well as scanned in books from other universities? It
>might be useful for U. Michigan faculty staff and students
>to search the scanned books from U. Michigan but not the
>rest of the world.
>
>- Mark