October 6, 2010, By Jennifer Howard. Intervview with Robert Darnton, the historian who directs the Harvard University Library. "Mr. Darnton pointed to studies that Harvard has done of digital-library projects in other countries, including the Netherlan
Despite financial pressure, we therefore are advancing on two fronts, the digital and the analog. People often talk about printed books as if they were extinct. I have been invited to so many conferences on “The Death of the Book” that I suspect it is ver
An extensive article by Charles Petersen on the New York Public library NYPL May 2012 Conclusion: "The renovation is elitism garbed in populist rhetoric, ultimately condescending to the very people the library’s board thinks they’re serving. It suggests that no one other than an Ivy League professor or student could ever hope to engage in scholarship or original research. Leave the heavy lifting to the folks at Harvard and McKinsey (and the quants in our commodities division), the financiers are saying; for the rest of you, there will be lovely sun-filled spots to check your email."
Publisher's Weekly By Peter Brantley | Nov 29, 2013 "It is hard to understand what the Authors Guild hopes to achieve by continuing the litigation. In a dramatically changing landscape where authors can now easily self-publish, bypassing existing publishing houses, yet where a new ecosystem supporting the creative arts does not wholly exist, can the guild not find more pressing needs on which to spend its time and resources than the digitization of out-of-print library books?"