With innovative technology created in what seems like daily, the demographic of library users also begins to change to “Digital Natives” (Rodenby). I believe libraries should continue to evolve with technology to serve the digital community.
Enter Google Books, which has been around for some time, and since 2004 along with partner libraries made millions of scanned digital copies of books to be easily searched through (“Google”). It seemed to me that it would be copyright infringement, however the U.S. 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals did not see it that way. The court ruled it was “fair use” because Google Books only used text from the scanned books to create an easy search for similar text sources (Google). Compared to searching with only keywords, Google Books lets you search using terms and provides you “snippets” of books, but even Google Books has restrictions.
A benefit for the partner libraries will be that Google Books provides them with a scanned digitized copy of the physical books being used (Koonce). Other libraries have begun creating digitized collections which can take time, money, and labor. I think this is a great idea. I've had to go into the local public library to access a primary source and was unable to take it home. Digitizing books like this can be helpful for library patrons who are homebound, live far from the library, or need the book right away.
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"Google, books and 'fair use'." Los Angeles Times, Apr 19, 2016. ProQuest, https://login.ezproxy.palomar.edu/login?auth=shibboleth&url=https://www.proquest.com/newspapers/google-books-fair-use/docview/1781719213/se-2.
Koonce, Lance. "Another page in the Google books saga: appeals court blesses mass digitization project as fair use." Intellectual Property & Technology Law Journal, vol. 28, no. 2, Feb. 2016, pp. 20+. Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A442782069/OVIC?u=cclc_palomar&sid=bookmark-OVIC&xid=4a63b6c7. Accessed 13 May 2024.
Rodenby, Thomas. “Insider’s Perspective. (Cover Story).” Information Today, vol. 36, no. 3, Apr. 2019, pp. 8–9. EBSCOhost, search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hch&AN=135938356&site=ehost-live&scope=site.Evaluation
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