Elisabeth Jones
ABSTRACT
An ongoing research project is introduced, comparing current large-scale digitization initiatives to early American public libraries as efforts to democratize access to information. Selected parallels and contrasts between these two phenomena are outlined, and a plan for further research -- a comparative case study analysis of two exemplars on each side of the comparison, informed by structuration and sociotechnical systems theory -- is described.
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Index Terms
- Large-scale book digitization in historical context: outlines of a comparison
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