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May 21, 2006
Public libraries and the internet
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee remarked last year in a BBC interview:"Even the clearest, cleverest and most comprehensive website cannot hope to equal the wealth of information contained in a good reference book. The internet is most definitely not a substitute for a well-stocked public library".
As our benefactor Andrew Carnegie wrote, “whatever agencies for good may rise or fall in the future, it seems certain that the Free Library is destined to stand and become an ever-increasing foundation of good to all the inhabitants” (An American Four-in-Hand in Britain, page 283).
Posted by Tim Coates at May 21, 2006 9:36 AM