This story is the 10th most emailed story today on the New York Times website:

"Questions and Praise for Google Web Library"

The story includes this extract:

"What I've learned is that libraries help people formulate questions as well as find answers," Ms. Wittenberg said. "Who will do that in a virtual world?"*

On the other hand, she said, an enhanced databank could make it easier for students to research topics across disciplines, changing the questions that professors ask and providing more robust answers. For example, a topic like "climate change" touches on both political science and science, she said, and "in the physical world, the books about them are in two different buildings at Columbia."

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/18/books/18libr.html

*Looks like Of Troy has answered her question:

a whole new industry will be born. get on board now to design the online equivient of the TV guide

Good one, Of Troy.