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The World Digital Library

October 18, 2007, 6:15 pm
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Today’s Washington Post has an article on the “World Digital Library.” It begins: “As ideas go, they don’t come much bigger: Digitize the accumulated wisdom of humankind, catalogue it, and offer it for free on the Internet in seven languages.”

What wonderful possibilities are opening up!

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  1. Kathy 10/18/2007 - 6:58 pm

    Fr. Komonchak,

    Check this out: http://www.cesg.unifr.ch/virt_bib/manuscripts.htm

  2. Ann Olivier 10/18/2007 - 9:32 pm  subscriber

    What about copyrights? Will the Library of Congress break those laws? If so, would that be fair?

  3. Ann Olivier 10/18/2007 - 9:44 pm  subscriber

    Project Gutenberg. an international project, has 22,000 public domain books available at

    http://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Main_Page

  4. Joseph A. Komonchak 10/19/2007 - 7:30 am  contributor

    I imagine that all concerned have looked into the copyright laws. I wouldn’t think that libraries could ignore them.

  5. Jim Pauwels 10/19/2007 - 11:12 am  subscriber

    We already have Wikipedia. That should be good enough for anyone.

    ;-)

  6. David Nickol 10/19/2007 - 3:43 pm  subscriber

    You can order the Summa Theologica (five volumes) at a nice discount at Amazon, but it’s still $154.

    http://www.amazon.com/Aquinas-Theologica-translated-Dominican-Province/dp/0870610635/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-7464212-2355966?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1192826290&sr=8-1

    Or you can just go here for free

    http://www.newadvent.org/summa/

  7. Jean Raber 10/19/2007 - 8:48 pm  subscriber

    And here are all my favorite saints for free in Fordham’s Medieval Sourcebook’s online version of Bede!

    http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/basis/bede-book1.html

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