19.022 googlizing books, internetting scholarship

                Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 19, No. 22.
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   [1] From: "Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett" <bkg_at_NYU.EDU> (4)
         Subject: The Googlization Of Books - Europe's Not Happy - Wired
                 05/11/05

   [2] From: Jarom McDonald <jmcdon_at_umd.edu> (40)
         Subject: Re: 19.017 what the Internet is doing to scholarship

   [3] From: Pat Galloway <galloway_at_ischool.utexas.edu> (3)
         Subject: Re: 19.017 what the Internet is doing to scholarship

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         Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 06:47:25 +0100
         From: "Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett" <bkg_at_NYU.EDU>
         Subject: The Googlization Of Books - Europe's Not Happy - Wired
05/11/05

The Googlization Of Books - Europe's Not Happy - Wired 05/11/05
http://www.artsjournal.com/publishing/redir/20050511-56886.html

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
New York University

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         Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 06:51:32 +0100
         From: Jarom McDonald <jmcdon_at_umd.edu>
         Subject: Re: 19.017 what the Internet is doing to scholarship

The essay below, from The New Republic, is available by subscription only.
However, if:book (a "project of The Institute for the Future of the Book")
has received permission to reproduce it online for free... it can be found
here:

http://www.futureofthebook.org/blog/archives/2005/04/reading_without.html

Jarom McDonald
Program Associate
Maryland Institute for Technology in the Humanities

Humanist Discussion Group (by way of Willard McCarty
<willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>) wrote:
> Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 19, No. 17.
> Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College London
> www.kcl.ac.uk/humanities/cch/humanist/
> www.princeton.edu/humanist/
> Submit to: humanist_at_princeton.edu
>
> Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 06:48:51 +0100
> From: "Donald Weinshank" <weinshan_at_cse.msu.edu>
> > Willard: Humanists may be interested in this essay in THE
NEW REPUBLIC.
>WHAT THE INTERNET IS DOING TO SCHOLARSHIP.
>The Bookless Future
>by David A. Bell
>http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050502&s=bell050205
>The entire essay is on-line.
>I do have two disagreements with the author.
>1. Only those items in which people are willing to invest the necessary time
>and money will be found by a search engine. The rest, in good Orwellian
>fashion, "go down the memory hole." These perforce include documents
>currently under copyright but for which no pay-for-use arrangement is
>possible.
>2. Changing technologies may make the postings unreadable within a few
>decades. As a critic once wrote, "Every day, we burn the Library of
>Alexandria." I had my own experiences with this when I could not read files
>written in WordMarc, a word processor much beloved -- for a few years -- in
>Engineering.
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         Date: Fri, 13 May 2005 06:51:54 +0100
         From: Pat Galloway <galloway_at_ischool.utexas.edu>
         Subject: Re: 19.017 what the Internet is doing to scholarship

And the entire essay is pay-per-view, so its impact will be a fraction of
what it would be if it were freely available.
Pat Galloway
Received on Fri May 13 2005 - 02:08:04 EDT