Want to flip through the pages of every book in the world? Several efforts are working to digitize and make available online all the information that might be hiding on the shelves of libraries around the world. We'll talk to leaders in the digital libraries community, and talk about just how they intend to go about bringing every book published into the online world.

Plus, this week scientists announced a new effort to create an online encyclopedia of life. Pulling information from labs, libraries, and museums around the world, the project aims to make a multimedia web page for every known species on the planet. We'll talk to one of the project's leaders.

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Guests:
Gary G. Borisy
Member of the Steering Committee, Encyclopedia of Life Project
Director and Chief Executive Officer
Marine Biological Laboratory
Woods' Hole, Massachusetts

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Brewster Kahle
Digital Librarian, Director and Co-Founder
The Internet Archive
San Francisco, California

Michael S. Hart
Founder, Project Gutenberg
Champaign, Illinois

Michael Keller
University Librarian
Director of Academic Information Resources
Stanford University
Stanford, California

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This segment produced by Charles Bergquist