The Universal Digital Library, backed by several major libraries around the globe, is more about preservation and less about getting clicks. In a software-driven world, it's easy to forget about the ...

Since 2002, at first in secret and later with great fanfare, Google has been working to create a digital collection of all the world's books, a library that it hopes will last forever and make ...

The older bits of the world’s accumulated knowledge, bound together in volumes of printedbooks and magazines, are slowly disappearing. Out-of-print renditionsoften disappear forever. Libraries with ...