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...commercial digital database will ultimately be damaging. However, history has shown that even a freely accessed digital library would not be what we want.Throughout history, storehouses of knowledge have never managed to be unadulterated houses of knowledge. Ulterior motives have always lurked amidst the stacks. France’s Biblioth??que Nationale served to consolidate the rule of the people during the French Revolution, asserting the power of the masses by, in the name of knowledge, seizing all of the private collections of the First and Second Estates. What has been considered the first public library, the library...
...financial staffer.Yet Darnton’s connections in the library world and his prominence as a proponent of online media promise to be a boon for Harvard. Darnton is a trustee of the New York Public Library and the Oxford University Press, and he drew the presidents of the Biblioth??que Nationale of France, the New York Public Library, and the head of Oxford University’s library to a conference at Princeton last fall about “the Research Library in the New Information Age.”“He’s very...
...adds.LOST IN THE STACKSLike teaching, research is conducted differently in Berlin—making for some cultural differences that Schmidgen says he enjoys.At the Max Planck Institute, Schmidgen says, professors rarely research in libraries themselves, relying on library staff to obtain books and materials. In his experience at the Biblioth??que Nationale de France two years ago, workers, with uniforms and gloves, went around to different stacks and brought books back to scholars’ desks.“You never have to move,” Schmidgen says.But professors at Harvard have access to the stacks at Widener...
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