Libraries in the vanguard

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Finally, America’s libraries in 2005 were put in the position of having to examine their role in yet another context after Google, the Internet search-engine giant, announced in December 2004 that it would embark on an ambitious project to digitally scan books from the collections of five major research libraries—Harvard, Stanford and Oxford Universities; the University of Michigan; and the New York Public Library—and make them searchable online.

And how will that affect libraries?

"Far from being obsolete in a Google world," wrote Irving E. Rockwood, editor and publisher of the Association of College & Research Libraries’ Choice magazine, "libraries [will] continue to play a vital social role as community centers, information providers and information advisers."

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