Along Came Google (eBook)

A History of Library Digitization

Deanna Marcum, Roger C. Schonfeld (Autoren)

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2021
232 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20803-9 (ISBN)

Infos

An incisive history of the controversial Google Books project and the ongoing quest for a universal digital libraryLibraries have long talked about providing comprehensive access to information for everyone. But when Google announced in 2004 that it planned to digitize books to make the world's knowledge accessible to all, questions were raised about the roles and responsibilities of libraries, the rights of authors and publishers, and whether a powerful corporation should be the conveyor of such a fundamental public good. Along Came Google traces the history of Google's book digitization project and its implications for us today.Deanna Marcum and Roger Schonfeld draw on in-depth interviews with those who both embraced and resisted Google's plans, from librarians and technologists to university leaders, tech executives, and the heads of leading publishing houses. They look at earlier digital initiatives to provide open access to knowledge, and describe how Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page made the case for a universal digital library and drew on their company's considerable financial resources to make it a reality. Marcum and Schonfeld examine how librarians and scholars organized a legal response to Google, and reveal the missed opportunities when a settlement with the tech giant failed.Along Came Google sheds light on the transformational effects of the Google Books project on scholarship and discusses how we can continue to think imaginatively and collaboratively about expanding the digital availability of knowledge.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 21.9.2021
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Buchhandel / Bibliothekswesen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Schlagworte: academic journal • academic library • Academic publishing • Advertising • alumnus • American Memory • archivist • Artstor • Association of American Publishers • Association of Research Libraries • author • Bibliography • Book • Brewster Kahle • Business Model • Business Plan • Cataloging • Center for Research Libraries • Clifford Lynch • Collaboration • Computer Scientist • Consideration • Copyright • Criticism • Digital Library • Digital Library Federation • Digital Preservation • Digital Public Library of America • Dissemination • E-Book • ecosystem • Electronic Publishing • elsevier • Europeana • European Library • executive director • Funding • Google Books • government agency • Harvard University • HathiTrust • Henriette Avram • historical society • Infrastructure • Institute of Museum and Library Services • Institution • Intellectual Property • Internet Archive • John Palfrey • JSTOR • Larry Page • librarian • Librarian of Congress • Librarians • Library • library acquisitions • Library of Congress • Library science • Manuscript • Microsoft • Monograph • National Endowment for the Humanities • National Library • Newsletter • newspaper • Non-Disclosure Agreement • Nonprofit Organization • OCLC • Open Content Alliance • Outreach • Paul Courant • philanthropy • Preprint • Princeton University Press • Processing (programming language) • ProQuest • Publication • public library • Publishing • PubMed Central • purchasing • Requirement • Research Libraries Group • Scholarly Communication • Scientific journal • Scientific Literature • Sergey Brin • Special Collections • Technology • technology company • The Google Book • The New York Times • Thought • United States National Library of Medicine • Universal library • Vendor • Website • WorldCat • World Digital Library • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20803-4 / 0691208034
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20803-9 / 9780691208039