P: ISSN No. 2394-0344 RNI No.  UPBIL/2016/67980 VOL.- VII , ISSUE- III June  - 2022
E: ISSN No. 2455-0817 Remarking An Analisation
Google As An Opportunity Or Threat For Libraries
Paper Id :  16201   Submission Date :  2022-06-15   Acceptance Date :  2022-06-20   Publication Date :  2022-06-25
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Aftab Khan
Associate Professor
Library
J.V Jain College
Saharanpur,Uttar Pradesh, India
Abstract
This paper is an attempt to study that today’s modern era is really Google a threat to libraries and what are the reasons behind that libraries are still better than the internet.It is found that already under pressure from online knowledge physical libraries have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic all over the world. In a stage when the internet has become the biggest, freely reachable library, professionals in the field feel that they may become superfluous with “Google replacing the librarian”. The study focuses on that technology has improved aggressively since last decade. Libraries are found to be better than the internet. As libraries are found to be safer spaces, libraries respect history, librarians digitized influential primary sources and librarians can help more in providing real news from the fake.
Keywords Google, Threat, Librarians, Internet, Technology.
Introduction
Today ‘Google’meaning “to search for information on the internet” has become a household infinitive.Over few years back, librarians approach to, skill and familiarity with using databases and catalogues, indexes and reference works was what made them the specialists in information improvement. In today’s modern era librarians are told that people expect to find things at the library in the same way as they find things on Amazon, iTunes, and Google. Many libraries are trying to make their catalogue more ‘Google–like’ with a single search box and applicabilityranked results based on keywords. If a question is asked using an online reference service and there is a good chance that the librarian at the other end will be using Google to answer the quiz, or demonstrating how to conduct more effective searches using Google. Some librarians support welcoming Google into the reference interview, not only to take advantage of Google’s search function, but also to take advantage of the link that public already have with Google, which they assume is positive. Librarians have written broadly on Google and about the relationship between libraries and Google, much of it sparking heated debate. Some in the library profession are unreserved in their appreciation for the search engine. The relationship between libraries and Google are symptoms of a more fundamental difference veiled by the word “information”. Outwardly, it seems that Google and libraries have much in common, namely the desire to provide access to information. Google’s mission is to organize the world’s information and make it useful to everyone in the world. While librarians have been ‘welcoming Google into the reference interview’ and trying to imitate Google’s simple interface. Google has been ‘actively courting’ libraries and librarians. Google has earnest plans to digitize the millions of books currently held in public libraries and put them online. This project apparently had its origin in the objection experienced by Google co-founder, Larry Page when, as a teenager, he was unable to find electronics manuals that would help him encourage the gadgets he had taken apart. The Google book project objective is to make it easier for people to find significant books. In its initial embodiment in 2004, as the Google Library Project, this plan led to lawsuits by publishers because of its disregard towards copyright restrictions. It will argue that public libraries are concerned with the content of information and aim to provide access to information in order to heighten democracy.
Objective of study
1. To study the reasons behind why libraries are better than internet. 2. To study that “Is really a Google threat to libraries in India”.
Review of Literature

Chakraborty, S., & Jana, S. (2021), Challenges and opportunities of academic libraries in India because of COVID-19, Annals of Library and Information Studies, 68(2), 110-118.The study reveals the impact of the current pandemic caused by COVID-19 on the academic libraries in India. The study identifies four areas concerned with an academic library namely, space, collection development, service, and the overall management to discuss the challenges and opportunities faced by them in view of the COVID-19. The study also focuses how COVID-19 posed several challenges to run the academic libraries in India in comparison to the pre-COVID-19 period regarding these areas. It presents opportunities to the libraries and suggests that if the libraries use these opportunities, it may prove to be beneficial to it in the long run.

Singh, B. (2021), Google an Opportunity or Threat for Libraries, International Journal of Information Library and Society, 10(1), 26.Abstract Information and Communication Technologies are being used in every profession and every sphere of life. After this revolution even so the Libraries are not unconcerned. Libraries users are increasingly depending upon internet for their information needs and Google with its products has turn up as a first choice of users for information needs. A library suspects that the growth of Google may pose a threat to their existence. The study highlights the concern of libraries and discusses how growth of Google may benefit libraries.
Main Text

1. Libraries respect history- The content which we collect from library is much more stable than online matter. Printed materials are generally published on acid-free
paper, which will not degenerate. Through the web services like the Internet Archive librarians are leading the way to bring similar stability.
2. Librarians digitize influential primary sources- Librarians are using the emerging technology of the internet to further the timeless mission of providing better access to information. Repeated physical handling can damage them while looking at historical artifacts is valuable.One solution is to make digital versions of important works available online as in the National Library of Medicine’s Turning the Pages project. People who do not have the resources to travel to a particular library this digitization projects also provide information to them.
3. Librarians are leaders in increasing online access to scholarly information-  Scholarly articles will be available by this open access movement to all readers online, and librarians have been strong encouraging of the movement for more than a decade.
4. Librarians do not censor -  One core value of librarianship, as embellished by the work of ALA’s Freedom to Read Foundation, is opposing censorship and allowing the free and full exchange of ideas. The internet is a powerful tool for information sharing, but it takes human supporter to stand for information freedom.
5. Libraries continue to provide benefits that are both tangible- Such as community spaces and human communication and harder to quantify access, privacy, intellectual freedom. The internet is apivotal and irreversible tool for modern living. However, it is not a library and will not replace the work of librarians.
Conclusion
It is clear that all is not glowing in the relationship between Google and libraries. Many, including prominent members of the library profession, have voiced concerns about the integrity of search results, their applicability, the impact of advertising, and censorship. Some libraries have repelled to get involved with the Google Book Project, articulation concerns about the regulation on access to content, preference in the selection of works, the quality of digitization and the limitations inherent in digitisation. There are fears that people will search rather than read books, and Google is blamed for ‘squelch down’, consolidate information retrieval with knowledge. Fiercely different scenarios are anticipate; Google may end up with a monopoly on information or Google may go broke. A deeper problem with the relationship between Google and libraries is shown in this paper related to various concerns outlined above all symptoms. The importance of this problem is that, far from having a common aim, Google and libraries want completely different things. Although Google and libraries each aim to bestow access to notification, the vocabulary and assimilation of this similar aim is very different. As publicly funded institutions, public libraries need to serve some appreciation of the public good. This is necessary that they be perceptive about the differences between what they seek to do and what the company Google does. Libraries need to publish their identity as providers of uniform and convincing information. Of course, this involves making subjective, value burdenedperception the type of judgements librarians have always made in the past when selecting items for the collection. Without these debates, libraries will lose their bearings, swallowed up by Google (or Google’s successor) and difference of opinion out into a sea of too much information. They will take hopes of a healthy freedom with them.
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