March 4, 2005

Google Library Project Is Culturally Biased, Says French National Librarian

By AISHA LABI

The head of the National Library of France worries that the huge digital library that Google is building in partnership with U.S. and British institutions will quickly become a dominant force in scholarship -- and that it will have too much of an American tint to it.

The Google project, which was announced in December, involves libraries at Harvard and Stanford Universities; the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; the University of Oxford, in England; and the New York Public

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