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What’s Your Opinion on Google Library?
Scott Jaschik over at Inside Higher Ed reports on a controversial endeavor by Google and many university libraries across the globe …
“To some, Google’s mammoth book digitization project with university libraries is the ultimate combination of technology and scholarship, potentially making millions of volumes available to audiences that could never visit major research libraries in person. To others, the project represents a dangerous centralization and corporatization of content.”
You can read more here
And leave Your opinion in a comment below…
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