The Thursday Keynote: Building Open Libraries | Against The Grain

"Brewster Kahle, Digital Librarian, Founder of the Internet Archive, and developer of the Wayback Machine, said we will need to build the library of the future together. How do we have a complete library of everything in the face of costs, legal issues, rules and regulations? We want many more authors and everyone a reader. The Internet Archive is working with about 500 libraries and is digitizing 3 million books. We have been occupied with pouring ourselves into the web but the average life of a web page is only 100 days. The Internet Archive has been paid to give things away. They buy materials and make them publicly available. If a book is not digital, it is as if it does not even exist."