Showing posts with label digital library divide. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital library divide. 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."