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Google Book Search talk with Howard Law School tomorrow
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David Drummond, Senior Vice President at Google, will visit Howard University tomorrow morning and discuss the Google's Book Search and its goal to "Equalizing Access to Knowledge." The talk is sponsored by The Institute of Intellectual Property and Social Justice at Howard University School of Law and will include an "engaging discussion on Google's book digitization project, the relationship between social justice and access to information," and "its relationship to the economic development of historically disadvantaged groups.
The Google Public Policy blog also cites the recent win in the Google Book Search settlement agreement as a topic of discussion and how this settlement will "dramatically expand online access to millions of works, opening a new chapter in equalizing access to information for users nationwide." The talk will take "a closer look at what this agreement means for historically disadvantaged groups in particular:"
I could see this talk unfolding in a couple ways:
1) Ridiculously interesting, with Google expounding on the points made in Google's presentation of how Google Book Search will change after the agreement between Google, authors and publishers.Maybe further description on how disadvantaged public schools and libraries would have discounts on the online access to books still in print. Maybe someone asks how Google becoming a digital pseudo-library will actual benefit or what other programs Google has in the works to support and buttress Google Book Search for disadvantaged groups.
2) Google guy continues to say some formula of "this is free, if you have a computer you can read these books, so libraries and schools will allow students to read Google Books for free." Boring. Nothing new then what is already known.
3) A mix of the two where some vague interesting ideas are hinted at but no actual cemented programs toward helping disadvantaged groups is presented.
I'm interested to see how it goes. As I have a prior appointment/job, I won't be able to attend, but if anyone does attend please respond in the comment section about how it went. You can RSVP here.
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