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New Video: Brewster Kahle Says “We Want Lots of Libraries, We Want Lots of Winners”

June 8, 2015 by Gary Price

A new video online today from EDUCAUSE features comments from Internet Archive Founder, Brewster Kahle.
From the Video:

I think the role of libraries should be traditional roles, preservation and access, just in the digital realm. So, they should start by gathering everything they can digitally and it turns out it’s not that expensive to do. Just do it…!

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Filed under: Libraries, News, Preservation

About Gary Price

Gary Price (gprice@mediasourceinc.com) is a librarian, writer, consultant, and frequent conference speaker based in the Washington D.C. metro area. Before launching INFOdocket, Price and Shirl Kennedy were the founders and senior editors at ResourceShelf and DocuTicker for 10 years. From 2006-2009 he was Director of Online Information Services at Ask.com, and is currently a contributing editor at Search Engine Land.

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