Comments on: Whither scholarly digitization efforts? http://www.stoa.org/archives/799 Serving news, projects, and links for digital classicists everywhere. Wed, 08 May 2013 16:09:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Roger Pearse http://www.stoa.org/archives/799/comment-page-1#comment-112782 Roger Pearse Thu, 03 Apr 2008 23:37:34 +0000 http://www.stoa.org/?p=799#comment-112782 Ask them this question also. Once all the books are online, in some future version of Google Books where even new books appear, will we still want to keep warehouses full of old copies of printed books, known as ‘libraries’?

In 25 years, will we be throwing our university library collections into the bin?

If not, why not? “Think of the savings!” the accountants will chant.

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