four fundamental changes in information technology since humans learned to speak.
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the invention of writing was the most important technological breakthrough in the history of humanity
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second technological shift when the codex replaced the scroll sometime soon after the beginning of the Christian era. By the third century AD, the codex—that is, books with pages that you turn as opposed to scrolls that you roll
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technology of printing did not change for nearly four centuries, but the reading public grew larger and larger, thanks to improvements in literacy, education, and access to the printed word.
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would argue that the new information technology should force us to rethink the notion of information itself.
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continuity I have in mind has to do with the nature of information itself or, to put it differently, the inherent instability of texts.
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every age was an age of information, each in its own way, and that information has always been unstable.
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aving learned to write news, I now distrust newspapers as a source of information, and I am often surprised by historians who take them as primary sources for knowing what really happened
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newspapers should be read for information about how contemporaries construed events, rather than for reliable knowledge of events
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We live in a time of unprecedented accessibility to information that is increasingly unreliable. Or do we?
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Instead of firmly fixed documents, we must deal with multiple, mutable texts. By studying them skeptically on our computer screens, we can learn how to read our daily newspaper more effectively—and even how to appreciate old books.
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Unbelievers used to dismiss Henry Clay Folger's determination to accumulate copies of the First Folio edition of Shakespeare as the mania of a crank.
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When Folger's collection grew beyond three dozen copies, his friends scoffed at him as Forty Folio Folger.
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Piracy was so pervasive in early modern Europe that best-sellers could not be blockbusters as they are today
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They abridged, expanded, and reworked texts as they pleased, without worrying about the authors' intentions.
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question in perspective by discussing two views of the library, which I would describe as grand illusions—grand and partly true.
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o put it positively, there is something to be said for both visions, the library as a citadel and the Internet as open space.
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Google proposal seemed to offer a way to make all book learning available to all people, or at least those privileged enough to have access to the World Wide Web
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will open up possibilities for research involving vast quantities of data, which could never be mastered without digitization
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scholars will be able to trace references to individuals, books, and ideas throughout the entire network of correspondence that undergirded the Enlightenment
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notably American Memory sponsored by the Library of Congress[1] and the Valley of the Shadow created at the University of Virginia[2] —have demonstrated the feasibility and usefulness of databases on this scale
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2. Although Google pursued an intelligent strategy by signing up five great libraries, their combined holdings will not come close to exhausting the stock of books in the United States.
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1. According to the most utopian claim of the Googlers, Google can put virtually all printed books on-line.
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If Google missed this book, and other books like it, the researcher who relied on Google would never be able to locate certain works of great importance.
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On the contrary, Google will make them more important than ever. To support this view, I would like to organize my argument around eight points.
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For books under copyright, however, Google will probably display only a few lines at a time, which it claims is legal under fair use.
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3. Although it is to be hoped that the publishers, authors, and Google will settle their dispute, it is difficult to see how copyright will cease to pose a problem.
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But nothing suggests that it will take account of the standards prescribed by bibliographers, such as the first edition to appear in print or the edition that corresponds most closely to the expressed intention of the author.
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Google defines its mission as the communication of information—right now, today; it does not commit itself to conserving texts indefinitely.
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it has not yet ventured into special collections, where the rarest works are to be found. And of course the totality of world literature—all the books in all the languages of the world—lies far beyond Google's capacity to digitize
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Electronic enterprises come and go. Research libraries last for centuries. Better to fortify them than to declare them obsolete
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7. Google plans to digitize many versions of each book, taking whatever it gets as the copies appear, assembly-line fashion, from the shelves; but will it make all of them available?
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No single copy of an eighteenth-century best-seller will do justice to the endless variety of editions. Serious scholars will have to study and compare many editions, in the original versions, not in the digitized reproductions that Google will sort out according to criteria that probably will have nothing to do with bibliographical scholarship.
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8. Even if the digitized image on the computer screen is accurate, it will fail to capture crucial aspects of a book.
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ts physical aspects provide clues about its existence as an element in a social and economic system; and if it contains margin notes, it can reveal a great deal about its place in the intellectual life of its readers.
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Rare book rooms are a vital part of research libraries, the part that is most inaccessible to Google. But libraries also provide places for ordinary readers to immerse themselves in books,
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I also say: long live Google, but don't count on it living long enough to replace that venerable building with the Corinthian columns.
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he research library still deserves to stand at the center of the campus, preserving the past and accumulating energy for the future.
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The man shrugged and replied, �In a year, the king may die. In a year, I may die. In a year, the horse may talk!�
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Booklist, Bill Ott, likes to say that librarians are divided into information people and story people
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Librarians, historically, have been at the place where new formats and new technologies happen to people in their daily lives.
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Plato was concerned that the new-fangled idea of writing stuff down would dilute scholarship and make men lazy
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even the best of writings are but a reminiscence of what we know, and that only in principles of justice and goodness and nobility taught and communicated orally
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argued between those who consider all fiction foul or useless and those who see no harm in it at all
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Jamie Larue, director of the Douglas Public Library in Castle Rock, Colorado, calls librarians �the keepers of the books, the answerers of questions, and the tellers of tales.
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Le Guin's words remind me of is how important it is to keep ideas that we do not comprehend, or believe in, or agree with; to keep them safe, and to keep them available. If librarians don't do this, who will? There is no other profession enjoined to preserve and disseminate all the truths of humankind that is our job.
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also need to remember that some ideas thought worthless today may turn out to be the bedrock of tomorrow's truths
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available not just good ideas and noble ideas, but bad ideas and silly ideas and yes, even dangerous and wicked ideas.
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readers need to have available to them truth in all its myriad guises, light and dark, easy and difficult
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There is really no reason why school libraries should fear competing sources of information. With the right adjustments, K-12 libraries can work alongside the rest of the data that students access on a daily basis. Remaining relevant is simply a matter of carrying foundational ideals forward and adapting to an ever-changing information culture.
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