Michael Gorman, president-elect of American Library Association (ALA), has a lot of librarians upset, particularly those who blog (write in a Weblog). His “Google and God’s Mind” (LA Times, 17 December 2004) commentary about Google’s book digitization project, which is being done in collaboration with various libraries, sparked some debate and disagreement with his position. The primary charge is that Gorman is overly cautious and insufficiently far-sighted regarding the application of technology to libraries. This led to his “Revenge of the Blog People” commentary in Library Journal. And this got a lot of bloggers upset.

LibraryPlanet.com put together a very nice Gorman article on 24 February 2005, in which the writer collected and linked the original article and various blogger responses from both librarians and non-librarians. On 28 February, 2005, Karen Schneider blogged a reasoned response to Gorman in her “Gormangate” blog entry: Free Range Librarian: Gorman, On Reflection.

Google press release, 14 December 2005: Google Press Center
Library Journal, 15 February 2005: Revenge of the Blog People!

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