A comment on the new Google Settlement Agreement
By Mikael on Saturday 8 November 2008, 13:26 - Permalink
(from a letter to J.)
Hi J.,
a Norwegian friend gave me a link to the page "Libraries on Planet Google" on the ARCL Blog, which was precisely what I was looking for, having read the press release about the new agreement between Google and a number of American university libraries, which you kindly posted to me yesterday.
While reading these comments to the new agreement with Google in the ARCL Blog, I cannot help thinking that the commentators are all myopic, narrowly American, incapable of seeing the USA and themselves in the larger, global context, and therefore also not able to formulate the necessary questions about the future of the library, which — the library being our common external memory — is one of the key questions of our common future. Am I unjust?
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Hi J.,
a Norwegian friend gave me a link to the page "Libraries on Planet Google" on the ARCL Blog, which was precisely what I was looking for, having read the press release about the new agreement between Google and a number of American university libraries, which you kindly posted to me yesterday.
While reading these comments to the new agreement with Google in the ARCL Blog, I cannot help thinking that the commentators are all myopic, narrowly American, incapable of seeing the USA and themselves in the larger, global context, and therefore also not able to formulate the necessary questions about the future of the library, which — the library being our common external memory — is one of the key questions of our common future. Am I unjust?
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