Free Our Libraries! Why We Need A New Approach to Putting Library Collections Online

Johnson, Richard K. Free Our Libraries! Why We Need A New Approach to Putting Library Collections Online., 2008 . In Universal Access Digital Library Summit (sponsored by Boston Library Consortium with support from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation), Boston, MA (US), 25 September 2008. (Unpublished) [Conference paper]

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Today businesses are scanning millions of books from the world’s great libraries and offering access to them on the Web. This conjures up the vision of a vast, free, Internet public library of accumulated knowledge. It seems like a marriage made in heaven—the union of corporate capital and enormous library collections, carrying knowledge into virtually every home and workplace. Unfortunately, it's not. New funding strategies, coordinated library action, and forward-looking principles are needed.

Item type:	Conference paper
Keywords:	digitization, e-books
Subjects:	B. Information use and sociology of information
Depositing user:	Richard K Johnson
Date deposited:	18 Oct 2010
Last modified:	02 Oct 2014 12:17
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10760/14988

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