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Million Book Libraries for All - Consequences

This seems to be my day for posting neat things to read. This new report from a recent seminar discusses the BIG questions about what changes will be wrought by millions of digital books and what are the intended and unintended consequences:

? What is the problem? How does access to large corpora of digital materials change that problem?
? What services do scholars need?
? How do we manage digital collections when the digital material is abundant rather than selective?
? What systems or infrastructure is necessary to provide services and materials to scholars?

Many More than a Million:
Building the digital environment for the age of abundance

Report of a One-Day Seminar on Promoting Digital Scholarship
Sponsored by the Council on Library and Information Resources
November 28, 2007

Final Report March 1, 2008

Table of Contents
Context
The problem
Why multi-million book libraries are different
What services are needed?
Collections
Systems
Major Questions
Recommendations
Acknowledgements
List of Participants

Lots of food for thought here.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on March 07, 2008 (boomark / email).