[Yulpub] Fwd: [DIG_REF] "The Library of Google" - interesting essay

[Suzanne Lorimer]

An interesting argument for Google's Book Search ...

-Sue

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>   Rée, Jonathan. The Library of Google. Prospect, Issue 131. February 2007.
>   http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=8215
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>   Interesting excerpt:
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>   "Researchers always need to be reminded not to put too much trust in 
> the materials that happen to lie within easy reach, but the risk of 
> distortion will be much greater if they confine their investigations to a 
> shelf of pre-selected books in a library rather than exposing themselves 
> to the awe-inspiring quantities of treasure mixed with dross that Google 
> spreads before them...Google may be creating new problems for scholars, 
> but it offers new solutions too, and no one can play around with Book 
> Search for more than a few minutes without stumbling into intellectual 
> conflict zones that will wake them from the dogmatic doze that might have 
> overwhelmed them in a well-regulated library."
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>   Bernie Sloan
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Suzanne Lorimer
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