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People think that when you use Google you're finding exactly what you need, but really, you need expert help.

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 according to the available media.

From Robert Darnton

As a graduate student at Oxford in 1963, I began writing about books in revolutionary France, helping to found the discipline of book history. I was in my academic corner writing about Enlightenment ideals when the Internet exploded the world of academic communication in the 1990s.

From Robert Darnton

As president of the American Historical Association, I started a programme to make dissertations into e-books in 1999. Before I knew it, I was involved in other electronic projects. Harvard invited me to become director of the libraries in 2007.

From Robert Darnton

Digital data are more fragile than printed material.

From Robert Darnton

My work has taken me from historical research to involvement in electronic publishing ventures to the directorship of the Harvard University Libraries.

From Robert Darnton

While confronting the problems of the present, I often find myself thinking back to the world of books as it was experienced by the Founding Fathers and the philosophers of the Enlightenment.

From Robert Darnton

We are living in one of those rare moments in history when things may come apart and be put back together again in ways that will determine the future for decades or more, despite the endless innovations of technology.

From Robert Darnton

The idea of a national digital library has been in the air for a long time, and there was a danger that some people would feel that it's their property, so to speak.

From Robert Darnton

It simply is not true that everything is now on the Internet, but it is true that the digital resources available through the Internet have enormous potential for education and even for self-empowerment of individuals.

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