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"If you haven’t heard about Google’s plan to digitize millions of books, you must live in another galaxy. Hardly a news outlet in the country, digitized or no, missed the story at the end of last year.

"Most people were pleased by the news. It seemed that books would finally be available at your fingertips. Google had embarked on a grand scheme to digitize the world’s greatest works, in cooperation with the world’s greatest libraries. Break out the champagne!

"Not a few bean counters at colleges and universities around the world must have thought, ‘At long last. We can kick the library in the archives and be done with that financial black hole.’ Some librarians may have had a similar vision of the future and been dismayed, although most of them were optimistic about Google’s plan."

Mary Y. Herring. Don’t Get Goggle-Eyed Over Google’s Plan to Digitize. The Chronicle Review. March 11, 2005.

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