“I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books.”
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Robert Choate Darnton (born May 10, 1939) is an American cultural historian and academic librarian who specializes in 18th-century France. He was director of the Harvard University Library from 2007 to 2016. **Source**: [Robert Darnton](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Darnton) on Wikipedia.
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“I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books.”
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“All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries...”
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“People sometimes announce that we have entered 'the information age' as if information did not exist in other times. I think that every age was an age of information, each in its own way and...”
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“We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace.”
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“I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.”
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