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# QOTD
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- Published: 2005-11-21T22:05:02.000Z
- Updated: 2020-10-28T21:01:05.000Z
- Author: Lorcan Dempsey
- Tags: Collections

The NYT story on Sid Verba has been noted in several places. This quote caught my eye. 

> James Hilton, the interim university librarian at the University of Michigan, for example, said that he asked his staff a year ago to estimate how long it would take to digitize the library’s seven million volumes. The answer was more than a 1,000 years. \[[At Harvard, a Man, a Plan and a Scanner – New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/21/business/21harvard.html?pagewanted=2&ref=lorcandempsey.net)\]