Google regularly makes headlines with new Web-based tools, but two recent projects promise to have profound implications for the future of librarianship. With Google's recent big push to add content from books and journals into its database via its expanded Google Print and new Google Scholar initiatives, today's academic libraries and publishers, among others, are taking notice. Many are sitting back and watching how others deal with these initiatives, while some are raising their voices in question, praise, or protest.
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