Jean-Yves Mollier on tomorrow's library
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- Subject: Jean-Yves Mollier on tomorrow's library
- Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2007 09:17:04 -0400
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FROM: European Press Review: euro|topics Newsletter
http://www.eurotopics.net/en
23/08/2007
France - Telerama
Jean-Yves Mollier on tomorrow's library
The French historian Jean-Yves Mollier, interviewed by Gilles Heure,
criticises the Google intiative to create an on-line library. The
purpose of the search engine is "to make money and pay its
share-holders. With this in mind, it will not be recommending books that
are hardly ever ordered. This is why public power ... should introduce
other search engines. Personally, I am more in favour of engines that
function according to language rather than states. ... I am afraid that
with a European search engine, rich countries with big libraries, -
France, the United Kingdom, Germany Spain or Italy - might stifle the
others. It seems to me that language-based search engines would be
fairer. But I am probably being utopian, as this would require the
support of institutions. UNESCO would probably be in the best position
to pilot it." (22/08/2007)
>> full article (external link, French)
<http://www.telerama.fr/livres/M07082012414110.html>
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>> Jean-Yves Mollier
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>> Gilles Heure
<http://www.eurotopics.net/en/presseschau/autorenindex/autor_heura_gilles/>