Out of Google Deal, France Commits $1.1 Billion to Digitization
Google might still be a partner, says head of national library
Norman Oder -- Library Journal, 12/15/2009
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With foreign non-English books now omitted from the pending Google Book Search Settlement (facing a hearing on Feb. 18, 2010), what happens to the rest of the world?
Well, France, one of the most vociferous objectors to Google’s plan—former French national librarian Jean-Noël Jeanneney wrote the 2006 book Google and the Myth of Universal Knowledge: A View from Europe—and the leading force behind the fledgling Europeana digital library—now will commit nearly $1.1 billion to scanning French literary works, audiovisual archives, and historical documents, according to the New York Times.
Last summer, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France (BNF) was reported to be on the verge of a deal to join Google Book Search, but that was scotched after fierce opposition within France.The public-private digitization partnership might involve Google, Bruno Racine, president of the BNF, told the Times. He estimated it would cost more than $1.5 billion to digitize the National Library’s collections
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