Science Friday talks about Digital Libraries

I caught this on my way back from a meeting Friday. Science Friday devoted it's first hour to digital libraries. The first started by discussing a project to create an online encyclopedia of life. Host Ira Flatow then talked to Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive, Michael Hart, Founder of Project Gutenberg, and Michael Keller, University Librarian at Stanford University (one of the institution's working on the Google Digitization project), about digital libraries.

There was an interesting discussion about the concern that projects involving commercial interests, like the Google project, will not allow full access to the digital works when the print counterparts are in the public domain. You can listen to the discussion by going to http://www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2007/May/hour1_051107.html.