Robbins Library Notes

Good morning, readers!

While browsing through Bookforum.com yesterday, I came across Robert Darnton’s “Google and the Future of Books,” from the latest issue of the New York Review of Books.

Darnton offers an interesting analysis of Google’s recent settlement with the Authors’ Guild, taking us through an historical examination of the Republic of Letters and the development of copyright law, and how this applies to present times.

Quite fascinating, and worth reading, especially since he raises some excellent questions about the power we are giving Google.