Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Google libraries?

A CNN.com article yesterday stated that "When students do research online these days, many educators worry, those are often about the only steps they take. If they can avoid a trip to the library at all, many gladly will."

CNN-Money carried an article telling of a Google project that will digitally scan the collections of seven libraries, including Harvard and Oxford, making them available online in the coming years.

This morning, there's an article on ABCnews about concerns that Google's "move to digitize research collections could spell the commercialization of libraries.

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