Michael Gorman, president-elect of the American Library Association and Dean of Library Services at California State University, Fresno, wrote a brief comment about Google's book digitisation program in the LA Times -- Google and God's Mind -- which you can download in PDF form here.
This got him attacked by bloggers who mainly missed the point, and now he has replied in Library Journal. He says, among other things:
It is obvious that the Blog People read what they want to read rather than what is in front of them and judge me to be wrong on the basis of what they think rather than what I actually wrote. Given the quality of the writing in the blogs I have seen, I doubt that many of the Blog People are in the habit of sustained reading of complex texts. It is entirely possible that their intellectual needs are met by an accumulation of random facts and paragraphs. In that case, their rejection of my view is quite understandable.
