Benchmark
Organizing the World's Information
As the world continues to become more and more digital, it is not surprising that one of the biggest players in the digital market would start looking to new venues for information organization and access. Google announced on December 14, 2004 that it would form a partnership with Stanford University, the University of Michigan, Harvard University, the New York Public Library and Oxford University's Bodleian Library "to digitally scan books from their collections so that users worldwide can search them in Google." [2]
Size and Scope of the Project
This project is an enormous undertaking. According to one source referenced below, the number of projected items is
- Stanford University: all eight million volumes
- University of Michigan: all seven million volumes
- Harvard University: pilot of 40,000, out of 1.5 million
- New York Public Library: pilot, expand to 20 million items
- Oxford's Bodleian Library: one million public domain volumes.[3]
This would suggest that over the course of the next several years Google and these libraries will scan and digitize over 36 million volumes. Even if each volume were 100 pages long this would be an extraordinary undertaking, costly in time, talents, and funds. Google and several of the sites have stated that books will not be damaged and, in fact, will not be scanned if they are too fragile to undergo the process. There have also been assurances that books will be returned to the shelves of their home libraries after this process. [4] This will be an interesting exercise in bibliographic control. Inevitably there will be duplication across the libraries. Google will either pay for multiple scannings of the same work o...
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[8] "Google: Be a Little Evil," Technology Review 108 (1: January 2005): 15-16 notes that Google collected 1.67 billion dollars from investors on its first day of public offering.
[9] "Investor Relations," (2005), http://investor.google.com/
[10] Charles H. Ferguson. "What's Next for Google?" Technology Review 108 (1: January 2005): 38-46.
[11] "Google' Partnership with Libraries," (2004), http://print.google.com/googleprint/library.html
[12] Barbara Quint. "Googles' Library Project: Questions, Questions, Questions," (December 27, 2004), http://www.infotoday.com/newsbreaks/nb041227-2.shtml
[13] Michael Gorman. "Google Library Plan: A Miss Not a Hit," Newsday (December 20, 2004), http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpgor204090787dec20,0,3580264.story?coll=ny-viewpoints-headlines
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