Showing posts with label US trailing EU and Japan in national digital library creation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US trailing EU and Japan in national digital library creation. Show all posts

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Playing catch-up in a digital library race; New York Times, 1/9/11

Natasha Singer, New York Times; Playing catch-up in a digital library race:

"Lending libraries may have been the newfangled democratizing factor of their day. Centuries later, though, the United States finds itself trailing Europe and Japan in creating the modern equivalent: a national digital library that would serve as an electronic repository for the nation’s cultural heritage.

In other words, there’s a real digital library divide."