胡e刀 转帖了DLIB杂志最新一期中的一篇文章：Where Do We Go From Here?The Next Decade for Digital Libraries 。
我译了半段，其他的不译了，太费时间。
The field of digital libraries has always been poorly-defined, a "discipline" of amorphous borders and crossroads, but also of atavistic resonance and unreasonable inspiration. "Digital libraries": this oxymoronic phrase has attracted dreamers and engineers, visionaries and entrepreneurs, a diversity of social scientists, lawyers, scientists and technicians. And even, ironically, librarians – though some would argue that digital libraries have very little to do with libraries as institutions or the practice of librarianship.
“数字图书馆”领域从来都缺少明确的定义，这一“学科”没有定形的边界却充斥着无数的十字路口，它有着返祖的回声（大概指传统图书馆界理解的数字图书馆），也有着大量不切实际的幻想。“数字图书馆”，这一矛盾综合着的词（大概指既然是Digital的，就不应该是libraries），吸引了大量的梦想家与工程师、理想主义者与务实的企业家、不同领域的社会学家、律师、科学工作者、技术人员。更有甚者，非常具有讽刺性，它也吸引着图书馆员－虽然有一些人坚持数字图书馆与图书馆这一机构极少有联系，也与图书馆事业的发展根本不搭界。
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