[Web4lib] Google Book Search: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly

[B.G. Sloan]

  Dian Schaffhauser, "Google Book Search: The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly," Campus Technology, 1/1/2008, http://campustechnology.com/articles/57064 
   
  Introductory paragraph:
   
  "Forget everything you believe about Google's book digitization project. Once you get past the freakishly high numbers bandied about, the two-dozen-plus distinguished institutions that have signed on, the legal paranoia and the ultra-ultra-secret processes and technologies involved-you'll find that Book Search (from the fifth most valuable company in America) is simply another high-cost effort that is simultaneously visionary and crude. It doesn't even have to succeed in order to impact the transformation of scholarship activities."
   
  Bernie Sloan

       
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