Once again, a great punchline: "So do libraries just become museums where people go to see vast shelves of paper books, old tomes that would never be found on the high street, or do they engage more with digital content and become community centres of learning, information and culture? Should their [sic] be a UK, European or global digital library consortia, or is it now called Google?" http://bookseller-association.blogspot.com/2008/11/bibliothques.html <http://bookseller-association.blogspot.com/2008/11/bibliothques.html> For those of you who, like me, can't get enough about the Google Settlement, see in general Siva Vaidhyanathan's blog The Googlization of Everything http://www.googlizationofeverything.com and in particular this summary of reactions to the settlement: http://www.googlizationofeverything.com/2008/11/must_read_peter_suber_su mmariz.php Amalyah Keshet
