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Article: The Birth of the Universal Library.
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- April 15, 2006
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By Jonathan B. Bengtson
The Open Content Alliance is our opportunity to shape the future of access to information, writes Jonathan B. Bengtson
We live in revolutionary times. While digitization projects in libraries have been around for a number of years, in the past 18 months the possibilities of digitization and the cultural impact of such scanning projects have leapt dramatically beyond the confines of academia. Making the full text of libraries' holdings available digitally is without question a natural next step in widening access to our collections-and massive digitization projects, such as that of the Open Content Alliance (OCA), have brought us ...