The library of Utopia

November 19, 2012
The_Reading_Room_at_the_British_Museum

The reading room at the British Museum (credit: ceridwen/Wikimedia Commons)

Google’s ambitious book-scanning program is foundering in the courts. Now a Harvard-led group is launching its own sweeping effort to put our literary heritage online, MIT Technology Review reports.

Robert ­Darnton. A distinguished historian, prize-winning author, and director of Harvard’s library system, has an ardent desire to see a universal library established online, a library that would, as he puts it, “make all knowledge available to all citizens.”  

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