Jo Guldi is a PhD student And She Says Google Book Search has transformed the academic profession where libraries can’t. She spent two years wandering through the Yale, Harvard, and California libraries, the British Library, Britain’s National Archives, and the immense reserves of North American Inter Library Loan reading every book on London, pavement, or travel she could get herhands on.
Then, in a single idle search @ Google Books, she added twenty extra full-text books to her list.
She says this signals nothing less than the opportunity for a new age of scholarship. Cultural and image analysis used to be painfully time-consuming, heavy lifting, involving rare kinds of access, full fellowships, immense travel, and long waits for delicate books. Now all that is changing.
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