IL05 - Day 2: Evening Session - Google-brary: The Status Quo of Tomorrow’s MEGALIBRARY
Posted on October 26, 2005
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Very fun, interesting session. Here are some sound-bytes from the panel:
Adam Smith from Google:
- Wants to dispell misinformation about Google Print
- What it is: Their effort to make all books digital (indexed by google) - doesn’t mean they have to digitize it
- Public domain - fully available
- Copyright - three short snippets from the book
The question was asked, “how will it look in the year 2020:
SteveArnold compared Google to the old pre-baby bell Bell Labs. Google has room to play and innovate.
Adam Smith… in 2020:
- everything is digitized
- everyone is an author, publisher, archivist - involved in the creative process
Mark Sandler on Libraries in 2020:
- some libraries will disappear (the ones that don’t “get it,” or that don’t change)
- they’ll need to change their mission - about access, leading people to content
- develop new strategies to connect users to content
Barbara Quint on libraries in 2020:
- authors are connecting directly with readers more
- librarians are discriminating between good/bad material
- you’re paying people to keep you from reading bad stuff
- we become censors… [me - how funny]
Roy Tennant’s take:
- we need print around
- (Barbara interjected) print becomes a format!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! an output
- libraries are about providing service
Stephen Abrams said: why do we ill books for $20 when we can buy them for $5 on amazon?
Barbara: ALA could issue a “librarian seal of approval” on good content
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