To put my comments in context it may help to know a little about my background. I hold a bachelor’s in computer science from Ohio State – completed 1975, a time when OSU was a leader in library automation with an early online catalog, developed in collaboration with the Ohio College Library Center, now the cataloging behemoth OCLC. I’m also a Michigan alum. My wife is a career long Technical Service librarian who started typing catalog cards; became an OCLC user; and has worked with multiple library bibliographic systems. This included her employment for nearly a decade at the University of Michigan, where she has met several of the individual leaders in the book, though never working in this project herself. So I consider myself a well informed bystander.
I found the history of the early digitization of the catalog well documented.
The moves toward digitizing full text were fascinating. I was aware of some of the early efforts here and they are well described. And the Google/Google Books story is told well.
The difficulties in establishing collaborative organizations are documented reasonably well; it is ironic that an obvious point of concern – the different perspectives of Google as a for profit and the libraries as nonprofit was easy to see. More subtle was the fact that many of the universities approached regarding the Hathitrust were concerned that Michigan would control the processes. Trust and collaboration has its limits, even with nonprofit universities.
There is just one area where my perspective differs from the authors. In multiple areas, Marcum and Schonfeld characterize the Google/publisher/author legal dispute as “legal wrangling” and minimize the substance of the concern. I have a strong personal bias in favor of IP protection, and therefore consider this far more than legal technicalities. If you came into my garage and drove my car away without permission in advance, I’d be unhappy even if you told me that you would get the oil changed and fill the tank before you returned it! Why do so many people seem to think that IP is more trivial than physical/ personal property? The authors do state that many of the participating universities’ legal counsel were concerned on this point as well. If the authors and publishers really believed in this attitude, perhaps they should offer the book at no charge, with licensing by the Creative Commons. But they chose traditional copyright by their distributor, and specifically remind all that permission is needed to reproduce in any way!
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