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 >But in this digital age, are such huge physical repositories
 >still needed? In an article entitled "Evolution of the
 >Bookworm," Sidney Verba, director of the Harvard University
 >Library, concludes that they are. "For one thing," Dr. Verba
 
I imagine there was a similar argument when papyrus scrolls were rapidly
being replaced by books.  But I think when you spend $1.7 billion to
build a pair buildings to house great books, that it's worth asking how
much of that is really for a library and how much is for a museum.
 
At the rate that new information is arriving in the world, I think it
would be better to concentrate on the digital issues and problems of
organizing and distributing new knowledge and let curators manage the
old. Carpe diem, y'know!
 
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