How are libraries coping with the promise and perils of our impending digital future?
Podcast, Robert Darnton and Susan Flannery: “Digitizing the Culture of Print: The Digital Public Library of America and Other Urgent Projects”
How are libraries coping with the promise and perils of our impending digital future?
Digitizing the Culture of Print: The Digital Public Library of America and Other Urgent Projects
What urgent initiatives are underway to assure universal access to our print inheritance and to the digital communication forms of the future?
Books and Libraries in the Digital Age with Robert Darnton
Robert Darnton on the history of the book, the future of books and reading, and his vision of how new and old media can reinforce each other.
Podcast and video: Robert Darnton, “Books and Libraries in the Digital Age”
Robert Darnton, director of the University Library and the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor at Harvard, discusses the emergence of the discipline of the history of the book, the future of books and reading, and his own vision of the ways in which new and old media can reinforce each other, strengthening and transforming the world of learning.
