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  1. Public Access to Digital MaterialsRoles, Rights, and Responsibilities of Libraries Brewster Kahle, CEO Alexa Internet, Director Internet Archive May 2001, ARL Brewster@archive.org

  2. Are we there yet? Proj Gutenberg’s Alice in Wonderland in Adobe’s EBook Copy: No Print: No Lend: No Give: No Read Aloud: No “This book can not be read aloud”

  3. Examples of Digital Approaches • Web Collection: Dealing with the Large and non-traditional collections • 1001 Movies: Digitization and Donation of Rich Media • InterLibrary Loan of Digital Materials • Loaning Digital Materials

  4. Web Collection • Over 40TB • 10M sites • Over 4B pages • 5 years More text than the Library of Congress, and only $300K US

  5. Alexa: Cataloging the Web Who Where When 3rd party reviews Out-of-print copies

  6. Alexa “Subject Indexing” the Web • Related and competative links • Built by usage paths and link analysis • 80 million different “catalog entries”

  7. Presidential Election 1996 Archive • Alexa with Smithsonian

  8. Presidential Election 2000 Archive • LC with Internet Archive, Compaq, Alexa Internet • 2-3 Terabytes

  9. Posting Archival collections

  10. Intellectual Property Preserves Possible Tax Incentives Rights are quite clear, but often limited Not “comprehensive”

  11. Posting Archival Materials Scanning for $0.10/page Post and “purge the complainers”

  12. InterLibrary Loan • Walk into any library and gain access to the world’s collections • Strong tradition, but traditionally expensive and slow • Over 95% of our libraries are now connected to the Net • Each library patron can leverage all other libraries

  13. Loaning Materials • One approach: NetLibrary • New publisher contracts: 2500 books in SFPL

  14. Lending Library Format • Lending one copy over and over again • Bedrock of the Library model • Digital copy that is borrowed becomes unreadable after a time

  15. Conclusion Libraries passionately pursue the preservation and access to information. We have the role, rights, and responsibility to fulfill this important mission in the digital era. Lets ramp up our collecting, cataloging, and lending of digital materials. We can upgrade every library to be world class. Brewster@archive.org

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