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  • SCOTT DENNIS: I really love walking through the stacks.

  • All those books around me, they are incredible treasures.

  • How many different works from how many different times

  • in history, that gives you a sense of awe.

  • I'm Scott Dennis, and I'm librarian for philosophy

  • at the University of Michigan.

  • History of Ecuador.

  • This is acid paper from the 1880s.

  • This is getting very brittle, and this will eventually

  • turn to dust.

  • We were in danger of literally losing

  • every copy of some of these books from the 19th century.

  • Google went through all of this.

  • I can walk through here now, and we

  • know that it's been preserved.

  • DIVYA MOULI: Sort of the real power of Google Books

  • is that it's intended to be really easy to use

  • for any kind of person.

  • They can just go on Google Books, search for a phrase

  • or search for a word, and a whole world

  • is opened up to them about that topic.

  • Our mission statement as a whole company

  • is to organize the world's information

  • and make it universally accessible and useful.

  • Having the power to search this huge collection of books

  • from all across the world for this very specific information

  • that you're looking for is pretty invaluable.

  • ADAM METZGER: My name is Adam, and I'm one

  • of the members of the band AJR.

  • And while we've been on tour, I have stayed in school,

  • and I'm working on my PhD in international human rights law.

  • Plenty of room.

  • Google Books is a very big part of the solution.

  • It's saved my back from carrying so many books around.

  • The fact that I can organize my entire bookshelf in one

  • place really easily, it allows me to move much,

  • much faster creating a body of work on a certain topic.

  • LISA LISSON: My favorite part of research and genealogy

  • is finding the answers.

  • It's like putting together a huge jigsaw puzzle.

  • And you get that last piece in, and it's like, aha.

  • I love discovering the stories of ancestors,

  • whether they're my ancestors or whether they're

  • someone else's ancestors.

  • Google Books gives me access to records and information

  • I would not necessarily be able to get.

  • City directories-- you can find a lot of city directories

  • on Google Books, and those can tell so much about an ancestor.

  • Having access to Google Books saves me time,

  • it saves me money, but it also opens up ideas

  • that I never knew.

  • SCOTT DENNIS: Google Books really has democratized access.

  • It's the power to bring all these vast resources

  • and literally make them available to everyone,

  • everywhere.

  • Google Books goes on to change people's lives

  • and affect the world.

  • That's pretty profound.

SCOTT DENNIS: I really love walking through the stacks.

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谷歌圖書。15年來保存世界各地的知識。 (Google Books: 15 years of preserving knowledge from around the world)

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    林宜悉 發佈於 2021 年 01 月 14 日
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