"It simply is not true that everything is……" — Robert Darnton
"It simply is not true that everything is now on the Internet, but it is true that the digital resources available through the Internet have enormous potential for education and even for self-empowerment of individuals."
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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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All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of…
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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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