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The case for books : past, present, and future
\"The era of the printed book is at a crossroad. E-readers are flooding the market, books are available to read on cell phones, and companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple are competing to command near monopolistic positions as sellers and dispensers of digital information. Is the printed book resilient enough to survive the digital revolution, or will it become obsolete? In this lasting collection of essays, Robert Darnton--an intellectual pioneer in the field of this history of the book--lends unique authority to the life, role, and legacy of the book in society.\"--P. 4 of cover.
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Using massive digital libraries
The creation of massive digital libraries is your existential crisis. After all, some say they may lead to the demise of traditional libraries. Recognizing libraries as a \"big idea\" that has been implemented in many ways over thousands of years, author Andrew Weiss is not so gloomy. He explores the question of how libraries will adapt, applying and using massive digital libraries. Using the authors criteria for a massive digital libraries, you'll have a firm understanding of their characteristics. You'll track the path of Google Books and the early proponents of the Very Large Digital Library as it met the protests of the scholarly communication community. You'll learn about library practices of the massive digital libraries and how traditional libraries are developing applications, with coverage such as: comparing the collection development approaches of Google Books and Hathi Trust Appplications, such as MDL for research in digital humanities, catalog integration through the Google Book API, Culturenomics and the Google Ngram viewer. 4 case studies of library projects with Google Books
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The case for books : past, present, and future
The era of the printed book is at a crossroad. E-readers are flooding the market, books are available to read on cell phones, and companies such as Google, Amazon, and Apple are competing to command near monopolistic positions as sellers and dispensers of digital information. Already, more books have been scanned and digitized than were housed in the great library in Alexandria. Is the printed book resilient enough to survive the digital revolution, or will it become obsolete? In this lasting collection of essays, Robert Darntonan intellectual pioneer in the field of this history of the booklends unique authority to the life, role, and legacy of the book in society.
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Scanning books
At the heart of the historic Belgian city of Ghent is the cityʼs university. Ghent Universityʼs library has a collection in excess of a million books in French, Flemish, German and English. Since 2007 the library has been working with search engine company Google to digitally capture 300,000 books from the collection and make them freely available online.
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How Will Google Print Library Project Affect the Use of Books?
Since its announcement in December 2004, Google Print Library Project has attracted many reactions--optimistic and pessimistic. Google as a corporation enters the library domain by digitizing millions of library books and providing them online. Many questions have been raised from various aspects since. The current essay aims to join and enrich the discussion by looking through three issues: (1) based on the analysis of the usage of print collections in libraries to question how much this million-dollar Project will change the use of the scanned books; (2) by looking at the problems in searching method, ranking of retrievals and users’ search behavior on the Web to examine how the Project will provide better search results to users; and (3) how it might shape the Project when a corporation’s provision of free information conflicts with profit pressures.
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Alexandria burned - securing knowledge access in the age of Google
Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to examine the legal implications presented by the Google Library Project which entails the digitization of the collections of five prominent libraries.Design methodology approach - This paper focuses on knowledge access and the effect digitization will have on the availability of books heretofore available only in analog form and in libraries. This paper does not address \"e-books\" or similar electronic publishing formats but instead analyzes the process of digitizing hard copy books in their entirety, making the content available for searching online, and the copyright, private property, and antitrust issues that will confront a online commercial library.Findings - While conducting research for this paper, it was found that the internet space opens up as many problems as opportunities. The copyright laws have been well balanced over the years to reflect the interests of the copyright holder and the public. Commercial entities, in particular, internet search engines, are entering into licensing and other contractual arrangements which may limit public access to works that would otherwise be available for use under the existing fair use, first sale, and library exemption regimes.Originality value - What may be considered original is the emphasis on the contract between Google and the University of Michigan's \"cooperative agreement.\" It is unusual that such a document is available for public scrutiny and provides a window into the thinking of both parties. Google, with extraordinary assets available to it, may be able to unfairly skew knowledge access in a way unimaginable in a traditional library setting. Characterizing the legal relationship between Google, the libraries, and the public may not be new, but the approach should afford additional insight into the ongoing hard copy electronic copy debate.
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Fair Use or Exploitation? The Google Book Search Controversy
The Google Book Search Library Project, in which millions of books from libraries will be scanned and made searchable on the Web, has led to controversy and legal action. Publishers are suing Google for copyright infringement, while Google claims their use falls under the fair use privilege of the Copyright Act. An overview of the library project is followed by an examination of the controversy and a look at the beta program in practice.
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How Will Goog/e Print Library Project Affect the Use of Books?
GOOGLE作為一個商業巨人進入了圖書館 領域，於2004年12月宣佈其圖書館計劃，將數百萬冊圖書館的藏書數位化後存入其數據庫，供公眾網上查詢。這一計劃引起7各界的廣泛討論。本文從三方面討論:(1)從對傳統印 刷書籍應用的分析，探討GOOGLE圖書館計劃是否可能明顯改變對這些書籍的應用;(2) 從分析存在於網上搜索中的問題和使用者的搜索行為，探討GOOGLE圖書館計劃是否將為用戶提供更好的搜索方法和準確的查詢結果;(3)最後，本文探討商業公司提供免費信息 和金錢效益發生衝突時的局限性
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Historical Perspectives on Books and Publishing: A Review Essay
Professor Robert Darnton in The Case for Books writes, 'we live in a world where information is power; it's a real force in society'. Historically, whoever dominated the trade routes dominated the world, as exemplified by the Dutch, French and British empires. In the 20th century control of natural resources, such as oil and gas, emerged as major factors in global power structures. Who owns and controls information in the digital world of the 21st century is increasingly important, as the China-Google dispute and the Rupert Murdoch news paywall debate illustrate.
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