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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Jean Noël Jeanneney |
| ISBN: | 0226395774 9780226395777 9780226395784 0226395782 |
| OCLC Number: | 70207948 |
| Language Note: | Translated from the French. |
| Notes: | "Originally published as Quand Google défie l'Europe: plaidoyer pour un sursaut ... 2005"--T.p. verso. |
| Description: | xvi, 92 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Contents: | Remarkable progress -- At the mercy of the market -- Hyperpower -- The difficulties of a response -- One European search engine, or several? -- Organizing knowledge -- A cultural project, an industrial project. |
| Other Titles: | Quand Google défie l'Europe. |
| Responsibility: | Jean-Noël Jeanneney ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan. |
| More information: |
Abstract:
"The recent announcement that Google will 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 were quick to raise a number of concerns about the potential for copyright infringement and unanticipated effects on the business of research and publishing." "Jean-Noel Jeanneney, 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. In this work, Jeanneney argues 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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"A work that not only addresses a critical issue but articulates practical proposals that can, and should, command the attention of cultural policy-makers and decision-makers everywhere. It is also essential reading for the wider public. The issue is about which principles . . . should guide the processes of digitising the world's literary heritage."--Colin Nettelbeck "Australian Book Review " Read more...
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- Google.
- Web search engines -- Europe.
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- Libraries and the Internet.
- Information organization.
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