In defense of Google Book Search

["Sloan, Bernie" <bernies@uillinois.edu>]

Ekman, Richard. The Books Google Could Open. Washington Post, page A15,
August 22, 2006. (Ekman is president of the Council of Independent
Colleges).  http://tinyurl.com/lzcvy

An excerpt:

"The nation's colleges and universities should support Google's
controversial project to digitize great libraries and offer books
online. It has the potential to do a lot of good for higher education in
this country."

Bernie Sloan
Senior Information Systems Consultant
Consortium of Academic & Research Libraries in Illinois
616 E. Green Street, Suite 213
Champaign, IL  61820-5752

Phone: (217) 333-4895
Fax:   (217) 265-0454
E-mail: bernies@uillinois.edu