The Internet Archive’s expansive ambition for their recently-introduced Bookserver continues to cause a range of excitement and confusion depending upon whom you speak to, in part because the scheme is in its very early stages. A profile of Archive founder Brewster Kahle in the new issue of Forbes magazine, titled Lend Ho!, tipped us to yet another aspect of their intentions: “Kahle hopes libraries will use the new Bookserver technology to scan and electronically lend orphans. Kahle reasons that libraries can scan and electronically lend their orphans without violating any laws, just as they lend those volumes today…. It also […]
