We are delighted to have tens of thousands of users a day from all over the world, whose feedback helps to improve our service. Introduction The Etext Center was founded on a commonsense vision that combines emerging network and digitizing technologies with our subject expertise and library skills. These issues can be found treated at greater length in various publications that have come out of the Etext Center, some of which are online. Our consistent use of SGML has meant that our data is as usable and as malleable now as it was in 1992.
Software comes and goes, but the standardized data remains.
With our tight library budgets, this is all we can afford to invest in on any real scale. Online delivery is the dominant delivery More and more, our users expect the digital library to come to them, wherever they happen to be. The library's prominence proclaimed his revolutionary faith in learning and truth. The digital library is a library more than it is a computer center. User training, collection development, and cataloging skills are central to a vibrant electronic collection, and much of our success is a direct result of our ability to integrate the electronic data into the library as a whole, and to draw on the skills that make the print-based library work.