The idea of a national digital library has been in the air for a long time, and there was a danger that some people would feel that it's their property, so to speak. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history.… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and formal thought. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
People think that when you use Google you're finding exactly what you need, but really, you need expert help. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center where you… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was… — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books. — Robert Darnton Copy Share Image
