Google and libraries

Google is trying to establish an online reading room for five major libraries by scanning stacks of hard-to-find books into its widely used Internet search engine.The New York library is allowing Google to include a small portion of its books no longer covered by copyright while Harvard is confining its participation to 40,000 volumes so it can gauge how well the process works. Oxford wants Google to scan all its books originally published before 1901,what is good something like that should be done long time ago.Anyway I only hope that in some future,more then 5 libraries will be included by this move of Google.
``It's a significant opportunity to bring our material to the rest of the world,'' said Paul LeClerc, president of the New York Public Library. ``It could solve an old problem: If people can't get to us, how can we get to them?''

Librarians are also excited about the prospect of creating a digital record for the reams of valuable material written long before computers were conceived.

The very best thing in this issue,it that a lot of people use Google and other search engines to drive their life


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