Googlization of Libraries: Debunking the Internet Godzilla Myth
Abstract
The Second Follett Lecture, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Dominican University, 15 February 2006
This paper describes the assumed effects of Google on library and information. It encourages librarians and information specialists to integrate Google into their activities, since Google itself supports a number of information issues related to access and availability of information to broad groups of networked individuals and institutions.
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- Figure 1: The imaginary Harold Washington Housing Complex, circa 2015.
- Figure 2: The former New York Public Library on Fifth Avenue, circa 2015.
- Figure 3: Google’s Find in a Library.
- Figure 4: The last two printed pages of Theophrastus’ Historia plantarum; De causis plantarum, published in Treviso by Bartholomaeus Confalonerius, completed 20 February 1483
- Figure 5: Opening page of Chopin Early Editions
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