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Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
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Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Jean Noël Jeanneney |
ISBN: | 0226395774 9780226395777 |
OCLC Number: | 1280817383 |
Language Note: | Translated from the French. |
Description: | 1 online resource (xvi, 92 pages) |
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."--Jacket.
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