Issue No.12 - December (2007 vol.8)
DOI Bookmark: http://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MDSO.2007.69
Large-scale digital libraries and book digitization projects are poised to go beyond prototypes into the mass market. This is generally accepted as a universal boon. However, whether end users anywhere in the world will be able to easily access materials across these projects is another matter. Much of digitization's promise might diminish unless commercial, nonprofit, and publicly funded resource organizations can agree to cooperate.
book digitization, digital libraries
Greg Goth, "Digital Libraries Are Taking Form", IEEE Distributed Systems Online, vol.8, no. 12, pp. 4, December 2007, doi:10.1109/MDSO.2007.69