Expect this story to make librarians twitch…Librarians have increasingly seen people use online search sites not to supplement research libraries but to replace them, says NYT. Of course, sites like Yahoo and Google are rapidly working towards that role…
Google has also indexed two million book titles through the Online Computer Library Center, which manages a database of catalogs from 12,000 libraries around the world.
Other search sites are striking similar deals. Yahoo recently signed an agreement with the online library center to index its catalogs, and four months ago, it started carrying out a plan to make more of the deep Web reachable through Yahoo.
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