[Web4lib] The paperless society? - article in today's NY Times

[Sidey, Carolyne]

he also says:

In the desire for efficiency - to find exactly what you need the moment you need it - paper is being left behind. Mr. Uhlik, who also worked on Google's Book Search, the book scanning project, has scanned about 100 of his reference books to try to make his home library digital and searchable. Because he wants to keep the house nearly paper-free, most of his remaining 1,000 books are in a shed. He occasionally pays his children to help scan them.



is there not a copyright issue here?



Carolyne Sidey
Manager, XRCC Library 
Xerox Research Centre of Canada
2660 Speakman Drive
Mississauga, ON L5K 2L1 
8*286-1302
(905) 823-7091 x 302 
fax. (905) 822-7022 (not on intelnet) 
Carolyne.sidey at xrcc.xeroxlabs.com
http://xrccinfo.xrcc.xerox.com/insidexrcc/library/ 




 

-----Original Message-----
From: web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org [mailto:web4lib-bounces at webjunction.org] On Behalf Of B.G. Sloan
Sent: February 10, 2008 10:15 AM
To: web4lib at webjunction.org
Subject: [Web4lib] The paperless society? - article in today's NY Times 

 
  According to an article in today's (Feb. 10) NY Times, "paper is becoming passé".
   
  Fairfield, Hannah. Pushing Paper Out the Door. New York Times. February 10, 2008.
  http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/business/10metrics.html
   
  A couple of quotes:
   
  "'Paper is no longer the master copy; the digital version is,' says Brewster Kahle, the founder and director of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library. 'Paper has been dealt a complete deathblow. When was the last time you saw a telephone book?'"
   
  "After rising steadily in the 1980s and '90s, worldwide paper consumption per capita has plateaued in recent years. In the richest countries, consumption fell 6 percent from 2000 to 2005, from 531 to 502 pounds a person."
   
  Bernie Sloan

       
---------------------------------
Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile.  Try it now.
_______________________________________________
Web4lib mailing list
Web4lib at webjunction.org
http://lists.webjunction.org/web4lib/