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An Overview of Selected Legal Digital Libraries
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Megan Shaw Prelinger, Prelinger Library, San Francisco,"To me the idea of a library as an arcane space and privileged space, a space separate from relevance to everyday life, is wrapped up in the general historical trend of anti-intellectualism. Libraries should be social spaces and idea playgrounds--places where people are free to get excited about ideas." - Aaron Sarver, "Creating the 21st Century Library," In These Times
"A paradox of the digital world is that, as the ability to store bits increases, the ability to store them over time decreases, something that can be seen in the worryingly short expected lifespans of digital media." - Matthew Broersma, "The End of Your Data as You Now Know It," ZDNet UK
Paul LeClerc, President NY Public Library: "And I used to think the World Wide Web was a huge revolution, comparable to Gutenberg. But what I now think was authentically revolutionary and as transformative as Gutenberg were search engines." - "Book Scanning Goes High-Tech," ABC News
"There's an illusion being created that all the world's knowledge is on the Web, but we haven't begun to glimpse what is out there in local archives and libraries," said Edward L. Ayers, a historian and dean of the college and graduate school of arts and sciences at the University of Virginia. "Material that is not digitized risks being neglected as it would not have been in the past, virtually lost to the great majority of potential users." - "History, Digitized (and Abridged)," The New York Times
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