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Courtesy, to use one example, is something that computers cannot quite teach yet. Whether computers ever become the sophisticated teachers Arthur C Clarke envisioned in Songs of Distant Earth remains to be seen. The present certainty is that computers can be useful tools, but nobody has quite figured out how to use them effectively in the classroom. Don’t forget, von Neumann, Woz, Alan Turing, et al., were all educated with chalkboards. --payam.minoofar.com

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March 28, 2007

How Digital Libraries Will Change Academe

Google’s ambitious book-scanning project may be the talk of the publishing world, but some college librarians are more excited by the Open Content Alliance, a similar endeavor led by Brewster Kahle, director of the nonprofit Internet Archive. In the inaugural installation of The Chronicle’s new weekly podcast series, Mr. Kahle offers a progress report on his project and outlines his vision for the future of digital libraries.

While Google imposes some usage restrictions on the works it scans from college libraries, the Open Content Alliance aims to keep its scanned material squarely in the public domain. “The idea is to build an open repository for researchers to do great work in the future,” he says.

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1. The Wired Campus incorrectly notes that institutional agreements with Google limit use of digital copies to use on campus. The University of Michigan is clearly permitted to use those files in expansive ways; even in these early days, our MBooks implementation provides worldwide access to the public domain materials and fulltext searching of in-copyright volumes. There is some subtlety to the constraints on sharing of the master files, but the blurb gets this key point wrong.

   — John Wilkin    Mar 29, 08:00 AM    #

2. Thanks for pointing out the mistake. We struck the erroneous phrase from the blog entry. It is indeed more nuanced than we had suggested.

   — wiredcampus    Mar 29, 07:27 PM    #

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