出版社：Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals
摘要：This is the first book about Google for librarians. Its 19 articles cover a wide spectrum, from Google Print
and Google Scholar to the best way to keep up to date with Google’s attempt to take over the world.
Contributors’ attitudes to Google vary from excitement through grudging assent to outright hostility. Both
Mark Sandler’s article, Disruptive beneficence: the Google Print Program and the future of libraries, and
that by Rick Anderson, The (uncertain) future of libraries in a Google world: sounding an alarm, give
disturbing views of what the future could hold. Are Google collecting information on all of us for a purpose?
Once they have digitised thousands of books how freely shall we be able to access them? As an antidote to
all the spin around Google, Mark Herring’s contribution (A gaggle of Googles: limitations and defects of
electronic access as panacea) is the most entertaining in the collection, and is a “must read.” We may not
agree with all his conclusions but his near 30 years’ experience make salutary reading.
