Them! Google’s Ambivalence toward Library and Information Science by Shawne D. Miksa, ASIS&T (Oct 2007)
Combatants: Libraries vs Google -- "It is a bit extreme to paint librarians and Google locked in the same battle, but the questionable characterization by some librarians of Google as a mutant technology lamentably exists alongside those who admire it for its many innovations."
Methods: relevance ranking based on links vs applied classification -- "Library classification is one process of information organization that does not work based on the concept of popularity as employed by Google. "
Book Search: "Brewster Kahle of the Open Content Alliance (OCA) contends that the “idea of making all books accessible online in new and different ways is all good news. But if you do this in a way that the materials that have been housed in libraries for centuries are made available only through one corporate interface, this is an Orwellian future.”"
Posted by Gwen at October 20, 2007 04:42 PM