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Promises Promises

Apr 18, 2012

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PROMISES PROMISES: Harvard University librarian Robert Darnton has "promised" to launch a nonprofit, Digital Public Library of America, by April 2013. Copyright snarls abound. Confessed Darton: "I have a sympathy for Utopianism."

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