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The Idea of Order
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This document explores the transition from an analog to a digital environment for knowledge access, preservation, and reconstitution, and the implications of this transition for managing research collections. The volume comprises three reports. The first, |Can a New Research Library be All-Digital?| By Lisa Spiro and Geneva Henry, explores the degree to which a new research library can eschew print. The second, |On the Cost of Keeping a Book,| by Paul Courant and Matthew |Buzzy| Nielsen, argues that from the perspective of long-term storage, digital surrogates offer a considerable cost savings over print-based libraries. The final report, |Ghostlier Demarcations,| examines how well large text databases being created by Google Books and other mass-digitization efforts meet the needs of scholars, and the larger implications of these projects for research, teaching, and publishing. The reports are introduced by Charles Henry; the volume includes a conclusion by Roger Schonfeld and an epilogue by Charles Henry. (Individual articles contain tables, figures, and footnotes.).