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Re: Critiquing Google (from a library perspective)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (J. Wyatt Ehrenfels)
Wed Feb 16 20:30:37 2005
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Date: Wed, 16 Feb 2005 07:14:59 -0800
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From: "J. Wyatt Ehrenfels" <jwyattehrenfels@YAHOO.COM>
To: PACS-L@LISTSERV.UH.EDU
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I have actually been critical of Google's role as a
defamation delivery system and invasion of privacy.
http://www.fireflySun.com/book/Google.php
--- "Sloan, Bernie" <bernies@UILLINOIS.EDU> wrote:
> Samuel Trosow of the University of Western Ontario
> made the following
> comment on the liblicense list, regarding the
> library community's
> reaction to various Google initiatives:
>
> "For the most part, Google is seen as some sort of
> savior, and most of
> the reaction from the library community has been
> uncritical."
>
> I'm interested in hearing critical comments about
> Google and its
> initiatives, from the perspective of how these
> initiatives have the
> potential to impact libraries and library services.
> Feel free to
> contribute your own comments, or to point me to the
> comments of others.
>
> I'll begin by alerting you to Roy Tennant's column
> in the new (February
> 15) issue of Library Journal:
>
> Tennant, Roy. Google Out of Print. Library Journal,
> 130(3). February 15,
> 2005.
> http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA502014
>
> Bernie Sloan
> Senior Library Information Systems Consultant, ILCSO
> University of Illinois Office for Planning and
> Budgeting
> 616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
> Champaign, IL 61820
>
> Phone: (217) 333-4895
> Fax: (217) 265-0454
> E-mail: bernies@uillinois.edu
>
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