DPLA - Digital Public Library of America

Visionen om det digitale folkebibliotek for hele USA er ret ny - måske har de fundet inspiration i DDB??

Anyways :

"Last year, Robert Darnton, a cultural historian and director of Harvard University’s library system, began to raise the prospect of creating a public digital library. This library would include the digitized collections of the country’s great research institutions, but it would also bring in other media - video, music, film - as well as the collection of Web pages maintained by the Internet Archive".

og :

Will you have librarians?
DARNTON: We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace. People think that when you use Google you’re finding exactly what you need, but really you need expert help.

A bookshelf the size of the world
Interview med Robert Darnton, "a cultural historian and director of Harvard University’s library system"