Library of Congress Scans 25,000 Books--Moving from Book Shelf
to Cyberspace    Doron Weber of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation,
which is funding the $2 million project, stresses the importance
of scanning complete books to preserve their cultural context.
"To preserve book knowledge and book culture means preserving
every word of every sentence in the right sequence of pages in
the right edition, within the appropriate historical, scholarly
and bibliographical context. You must respect what you scan and
treat it as an organic whole, not just raw bits of slapdash
data." The scanning is being done by the Internet Archive. The
San Francisco-based nonprofit group aims to preserve cultural
artifacts such as musical recordings and Web pages, as well as
books, and make them available online. Brewster Kahle heads the
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