{"id":64,"date":"2004-12-18T21:42:33","date_gmt":"2004-12-19T02:42:33","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=64"},"modified":"2004-12-18T21:42:33","modified_gmt":"2004-12-19T02:42:33","slug":"digital-libraries-full-of-promise-or-full-of-foreboding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/2004\/12\/18\/digital-libraries-full-of-promise-or-full-of-foreboding\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital libraries: Full of promise or full of foreboding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a quite interesting piece today about what we lose and what we gain with the growth of digital libraries.  In<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/12\/18\/books\/18libr.html?oref=login&#038;ex=1261112400&#38;en=c401bfb3f3850ab3&#38;ei=5088&#38;partner=rssnyt\"> Questions and Praise for Google Web Library<\/a>, the author explores a variety of viewpoints regarding Google&#8217;s recent announcement about digitizing the works of five of the great world libraries.  I think the author really captures librarians&#8217; mixed feelings; their excitement about change and improved access, and their fears about changing roles for librarians and the commercialization of libraries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times has a quite interesting piece today about what we lose and what we gain with the growth of digital libraries. In Questions and Praise for Google&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-libraries","category-our-digital-future"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meredith.wolfwater.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}