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April 28, 2010 | Rebecca Rego Barry

Harvard Library and the digital future

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From the May/June issue of the Harvard Magazine, "Gutenberg 2.0," a very interesting (and intense) article on the Harvard Library, Google Book Search, digitization, and the future of library collections. 

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