NYTimes >Internet Archive ’s Repository Collects Thousands of Books

[McKiernan, Gerard [LIB]]

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In a Flood Tide of Digital Data, an Ark Full of Books



As society embraces all forms of digital entertainment, a latter-day Noah is looking the other way. Brewster Kahle, who runs the Internet Archive, a nonprofit, hopes to collect one copy of every book.

... “We must keep the past even as we’re inventing a new future,” he says.

http://nyti.ms/A8oc7Z

/Gerry

Gerry McKiernan
Associate Professor
and
Science and Technology Librarian
Iowa State University
152 Parks Library
Ames IA 50011

http://digital-textbooks.blogspot.com/


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