DPLA - "Today we can realize the dream of the Enlightenment philosophers"

A good ten days ago the “Digital Public Library of America” (DPLA) went online, providing access to around 2.4 million digital copies of books, photos, handwritten documents and other documents from 12 major US libraries and institutions. Historian and Director of Harvard University Library Prof. Robert Darnton is the driving force behind the project. In a current article for “The New York Review of Books” he gives an in-depth explanation of the idea behind the DPLA. We asked him for an interview. Mehr