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The Infinite Library
By Wade Roush
Technology Review.com
May 2005

A long (5 pages) but very interesting view of Google's goal of digitizing several library collections of Oxford, Harvard, Stanford, University of Michigan, and the New York Public Library. It discusses some of the difficulties that Google might face (including digitizing machines still under development) and it discusses some of the potential promises and pitfalls that libraries might encounter digitizing their collection with Google.

Reading this article one can't help but be reminded of Lindberg and Humphreys 2015-The Future of Medical Libraries in New England Journal of Medicine 2005 March 17 352;11 1067-1070. (NEJM not free online) which I blogged about March 17. In that article the authors looked at the transformation of libraries specifically in medical libraries and electronic resources.

You start to really envision the whole library without boundaries concept.