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Big news this morning in Google’s
long-discussed desire to undertake mass digitization of academic library holdings. The ambitions here – on both
library and search engine sides – are to transform digital access to our
library holdings and to do it on a scale hitherto unseen. Quite remarkable – and very
much a project that combines a cluster of issues that are central to the work
of the DLF, with four of the five early partners with Google being DLF members
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The following excerpt is from the Miami Herald story –
links to the full text (from AP) and to a Search Engine Watch piece below:
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http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/business/national/10410515.htm?1c
See also Search Engine Watch
http://searchenginewatch.com/searchday/article.php/3447411
Best,
David
David Seaman
Executive Director,
Digital Library Federation
tel: 202-939-4762; fax: 202-939-4765
e-mail:
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