I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books.
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I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.
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We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.
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People sometimes announce that we have entered 'the information age' as if information did not exist in other times. I think that every age was an age of information, each in its own way and according to the available media.
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All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers.
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