[Web4lib] % of Knowledge Available Digitally

Hester, Mary HesterM at bartonccc.edu
Mon Feb 13 12:45:51 EST 2006


I know I have seen estimates on what percentage of knowledge is
available digitally and especially estimates on how much is available
free via the WWW.  Now that someone wants this information, however, I
can't seem to find it. They also want to know the ratio of books
published in print format each year VS the books published in electronic
format. 
 
Can anyone help me find this information?  Unfortunately this is one of
those ASAP situations.
 
Mary L. Hester, Director of Learning Resources
Barton County Community College
245 NE 30th Road; Great Bend, KS 67530
hesterm at bartonccc.edu <mailto:hesterm at bartonccc.edu>   620-792-9364; fax
620-792-3238
 
Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly
knowledgeable. Their skills are probably very underestimated and largely
underemployed. 
- Charles Medawar. The Social Audit Consumer Handbook, Macmillan, 1978,
p. 41.

 


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