Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge: A View from Europe

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The recent announcement that Google will digitize the holdings of several major libraries sent shock waves through the book industry and academe. Google presented this digital repository as a first step towards a long-dreamed-of universal library, but skeptics were quick to raise a number of concerns about the potential for copyright infringement and unanticipated effects on the business of research and publishing.

Jean-Noel Jeanneney, president of France’s Bibliotheque Nationale, here takes aim at what he sees as a far more troubling aspect of Google’s Library Project: its potential to misrepresent—and even damage—the world’s cultural heritage. In this impassioned work, Jeanneney argues that Google’s unsystematic digitization of books from a few partner libraries and its reliance on works written mostly in English constitute acts of selection that can only extend the dominance of American culture abroad. This danger is made evident by a Google book search the author discusses here—one run on Hugo, Cervantes, Dante, and Goethe that resulted in just one non-English edition, and a German translation of Hugo at that. An archive that can so easily slight the masters of European literature—and whose development is driven by commercial interests—cannot provide the foundation for a universal library.

As a leading librarian, Jeanneney remains enthusiastic about the archival potential of the Web. But he argues that the short-term thinking characterized by Google’s digital repository must be countered by long-term planning on the part of cultural and governmental institutions worldwide—a serious effort to create a truly comprehensive library, one based on the politics of inclusion and multiculturalism.








We definitely should have a digital "Universal Library", free to everyone to use as they will. As per usual business is holding us back & stemming the flow of information.

If only humans would learn to co-operate rather than fight wars. If only humans could see that it's always been "businessmen" (those who want power) who are behind the troubles of this world. It's not difficult to understand that anyone who wants to gain must take from another. It's also not difficult to understand that to live with one another for one another is the only way forward.

We could be freely sharing knowledge, freely exploring & expanding, but business puts a constraint upon us, just as the Church has done in the past. Science is restricted by business, techological development is restricted by business. We've got to get beyond this business way of seeing the world & begin to really unfold our full potential.

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