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June 3, 2005

A French Library Leader Urges a European Response

Forum: Join an online discussion about the impact on publishing and scholarship of Google's plans to scan millions of books and make the full texts part of its popular search index.

Soon after Google announced its library project in December, Jean-Noël Jeanneney, president of the National Library of France, issued a call to arms to European librarians, exhorting them to mount a large-scale digital

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