Interesting blog post on The Atlantic magazine web site by David Rothman, "the founder of TeleRead, the oldest English-language site offering general e-book news and views."

"Might the time have finally come for a well-stocked national digital library system (NDLS) for the United States? That's the topic of this essay, and many of the same concepts could apply to other countries, including Canada, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Australia, Japan, China, India, Brazil, and various other nations. Perhaps national digital library systems could interconnect, forming a global one. But for simplicity's sake and reasons of self interest, I'll focus here on a digital system for the United States."

Full text at: http://bit.ly/dz23Rj

Bernie Sloan