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From Library Journal:

In the race to digitize the public domain, is the future of the library at stake? An interview with the Open Content Alliance's Brewster Kahle

For all the potential of Web.2.0 technologies, our literary future still rests on what we make of our past, specifically, the centuries of ideas and human thought recorded in the miles of print books sitting on library shelves around the world. To merge the texts and traditions of our print past and our web future, explains visionary technologist Brewster Kahle, represents a truly historic moment for our culture. And, he adds, an opportunity that librarians must be prepared to seize.