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Robert Darnton Quotes

Digital data are more fragile than printed material Picture Quote #1

I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center where you are given three years to do whatever work you want Picture Quote #1

I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner Picture Quote #1

The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet Picture Quote #1

In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a query, and Google would show you snippets. They asked university libraries for books, which they would scan for free. At Harvard we didn’t permit them to take works under copyright, but other libraries gave them everything Picture Quote #1

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s Picture Quote #1

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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 knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007 Picture Quote #1

Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

People think that when you use Google you’re finding exactly what you need, but really, you need expert help Picture Quote #1

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 history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun Picture Quote #1

The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn’t mean I’m not concerned with the 21st Picture Quote #1

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I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books Picture Quote #1

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Digital data are more fragile than printed material (Robert Darnton Quotes) I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center where you are given three years to do whatever work you want (Robert Darnton Quotes) I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner (Robert Darnton Quotes) The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet (Robert Darnton Quotes) In 2002, Google began an ambitious project to digitize every book in the world. It was intended as a search project: type in a query, and Google would show you snippets. They asked university libraries for books, which they would scan for free. At Harvard we didn’t permit them to take works under copyright, but other libraries gave them everything (Robert Darnton Quotes) As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s (Robert Darnton Quotes) 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 involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007 (Robert Darnton Quotes) Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty (Robert Darnton Quotes) 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 Quotes) People think that when you use Google you’re finding exactly what you need, but really, you need expert help. (Robert Darnton Quotes) 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 history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun. (Robert Darnton Quotes) The fact that I spend a lot of time in the 18th century doesn’t mean I’m not concerned with the 21st (Robert Darnton Quotes) 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 Quotes)