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GOOGLE AND THE MYTH OF UNIVERSAL KNOWLEDGE
A VIEW FROM EUROPE |
| By: |
Jean-Noel Jeanneney, Teresa Lavender Fagan (Trans), Ian Wilson (Foreword) |
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Paperback |
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£9.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0226395782 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780226395784 |
| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 September, 2007 |
| Pages: |
108 |
| Description: |
The announcement that Google would digitize the holdings of several libraries sent shock waves through the book industry and academe. This title argues that the short-term thinking characterized by Google's digital repository must be countered by long-term planning on the part of cultural and governmental institutions worldwide. |
| Synopsis: |
The announcement that Google would digitize the holdings of several major libraries sent shock waves through the book industry and academe. Google presented this digital repository as a first step toward a long-dreamed-of universal library, but skeptics quickly raised concerns about the potential for copyright infringement and unanticipated effects on the business of research and publishing. Jean-Noel Jeanneney, former president of France's Bibliotheque Nationale, here takes aim at what he sees as a far more troubling aspect of Google's Library Project: its potential to misrepresent - and even damage - the world's cultural heritage. Jeanneney argues here that Google's unsystematic digitization of books from a few partner libraries and its reliance on works written mostly in English constitute acts of selection that can only extend the dominance of American culture abroad. As a leading librarian, Jeanneney remains enthusiastic about the archival potential of the Web.But he argues that the short-term thinking characterized by Google's digital repository must be countered by long-term planning on the part of cultural and governmental institutions worldwide - a serious effort to create a truly comprehensive library, one based on the politics of inclusion and multiculturalism. |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press |
| Returns: |
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