"All of us are citizens in a republic……" — Robert Darnton
"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."
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Robert Darnton
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16 Quotes by Robert Darnton
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I arrived from Harvard, where I had studied philosophy and the history of ideas, with a bias toward literature and…
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I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small…
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The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing…
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Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country,…
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We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.
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I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting…
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As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the…
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As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I…
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Digital data are more fragile than printed material.
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My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard…
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While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it…
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I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the…
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