Le Google Print

Language Log has an interesting series of articles on the European, French-led, initiative to form a rival to Google Print. The last article pours appropriate scorn on the idea that Google apparently plan to trample on European Culture:

Do these folks really think that the great works of European literature are systematically missing from The New York Public Library and the libraries of the University of Michigan, Harvard University, Stanford University, and Oxford University? And do they fear that Google’s crack cultural commandos are even now infiltrating across the channel, preparing to burn libraries and destroy scanners from Brest to the Danube?

Last time I checked, Oxford was in Europe. I notice that the British Library are being coy about joining in the European venture too. Does it matter who does it as long as it gets done and gets done to one’s satisfaction. I see nothing sinister as yet about Google Print. As Language Log notes, the more digitization projects the better.

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