Collections Quote by Robert Darnton

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

— Robert Darnton

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

I want to collect the entire range of scientific and educational literature and make it accessible to the whole world. Just like Google Books,…

— Alexandra Elbakyan

I am enormously pleased to become a part of the Harvard community once again. I look forward to working with the students and faculty…

— Annette Gordon-Reed

“What worries me is that a load of shite has been talked about digitisation as being the new Gutenberg, but the fact is that…

— Jeanette Winterson

I think there's going to be something that happens now, where books move in two directions, one toward digitized formats and one toward remembering…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

— John Updike

Sometimes I fear that, if Harvard does not give up trying to turn itself from an Institution of Learning into an Educational Institution, we…

— Edwin Boring

Tacked above my desk are photos of artists I admire - Hopper, Sargent, Twain - and postcards from beloved bookstores where I've spent all…

— J. R. Moehringer

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

“Every advance in information technology involves choosing what you want to preserve and what you want to ditch. Scanning rare books on to microfilm…

— Robert Twigger

Digitization is certainly challenging the old ways of doing things, whether that's in publishing or politics. But it's not the end. In many ways,…

— Heather Brooke