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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

A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on Picture Quote #1

Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches Picture Quote #1

Libraries are the center of our lives. There’s no use going to a university if you don’t live at the library Picture Quote #1

Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever Picture Quote #1

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000 Picture Quote #1

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No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end Picture Quote #1

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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 (University Libraries Quotes) A society - any society - is defined as a set of mutual benefits and duties embodied most visibly in public institutions: public schools, public libraries, public transportation, public hospitals, public parks, public museums, public recreation, public universities, and so on. (University Libraries Quotes) Prior to the Civil War, most libraries were either privately owned or housed in universities or churches. (University Libraries Quotes) Libraries are the center of our lives. There’s no use going to a university if you don’t live at the library. (University Libraries Quotes) Gone are the days when your indiscretions at university were recorded in a roneoed college newsletter of which there is only one copy left tucked in a filing cabinet at the back of a library. Today that same college newsletter is online, accessible by the whole world now and forever (University Libraries Quotes) Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000 (University Libraries Quotes) No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end (University Libraries Quotes)