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...online registration, the new Mather-Dunster kitchen, and wireless Internet in dormitories—there is one new development that students may not have noticed but that come term-paper time will make a world of difference. That change is the switch from Harvard University Library’s (HUL) E-Resources website to the new E-Research @ Harvard Libraries website. HUL has done a tremendous job with the new easy-to-use site, and we applaud them for dreaming up such a helpful resource...
According to Pforzheimer University Professor Sid Verba ’53, who is the director of the Harvard University Library (HUL), the partnership with Google marks an unprecedented step in making Harvard’s books accessible to the public...
...HUL representatives insist that foreign literature is well-represented in Google’s digitization project...
...December, HUL and Google began a joint venture to digitize some 40,000 volumes held in Harvard’s collections. Following successful completion of the pilot program, all 15 million volumes held in Harvard’s libraries could eventually be digitized. The news was greeted with excitement and support throughout the academic community. Digitization, after all, offers a means of dissolving the physical barriers of library walls and book covers; with digitization, a field researcher in Mongolia could have the entire Widener Library collection at his fingertips. The concept represents the ultimate realization of the Internet?...
...would argue that authors and publishers should not receive royalties or that HUL and Google should be allowed to proceed in their project without restrictions. Nevertheless, book publishers now have a golden opportunity to learn a lesson that the recording industry required almost a decade to absorb: royalties and a digital platform are not mutually exclusive. The success of the iTunes music store verifies this principle. The recording industry could have deployed a legal and effective solution like iTunes immediately after online music began to gain popularity; instead, they sued scores of consumers and resisted the inevitability of the fall...