….[then Google] created Google Scholar, a tool to quickly search databases of academic journals, and approached some leading colleges with offers to scan and index all their public domain tomes. This highlights Google’s progress in its quest to provide instant access to all recorded human knowledge, but raises questions about the future of bricks and mortar libraries and, more widely, about the library model itself and the role Google will play in such a future. (Surely not relevant ads in library books?). Read Good, God, Google in the Globe and Mail, April 19th, 2005.
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