I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology… The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner. Robert Darnton Read Quote
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. Robert Darnton Read Quote
Thanks to modern technology, we now can deliver every text in every research library to every citizen in our country, and to everyone in the world. If we fail to do so, we are not living up to our civic duty. Robert Darnton Read Quote
People think that when you use Google you’re finding exactly what you need, but really, you need expert help. Robert Darnton Read Quote
We need librarians who can handle this tremendous jumble of information that is in cyberspace. Robert Darnton Read Quote
All of us are citizens in a republic much larger than the Republic of America. It is the Republic of Letters, a realm of the mind that extends everywhere, without police, national boundaries, or disciplinary frontiers. Robert Darnton Read Quote
The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet. Robert Darnton Read Quote
I was very fortunate to be elected to the Society of Fellows at Harvard, which is, in effect, a small research center where you are given three years to do whatever work you want. Robert Darnton Read Quote
I worked for a brief spell as a journalist, but soon I discovered that I didn’t want to be a journalist – I wanted to be a historian. Robert Darnton Read Quote
