The dream of a virtual library of out-of-print books is dead, for now.
As with music and films, when you die your virtual library will die with you.
Virtual Library (//www.museumca.org/usa/) offers links to museums around the United States and the world.
Others have posted races from the 1970s and 1980s, creating a comprehensive virtual library on YouTube.
"My mother was an educator, and my father was a history buff, so our home was a virtual library, covering every author from Beverly Cleary to James Michener".
As always seems to be the case, classical buffs have to work harder than pop-music fans to build and organize the virtual library of their dreams.
It would have provided financial benefits to authors of out-of-print books and made available a vast virtual library of those books.
The explosive growth of communications networks after 1990, particularly in the scholarly world, has accelerated the establishment of the "virtual library".
There could be a virtual library of parts perhaps on the Internet, which already has a standard code, VRML, for describing solid objects.
Everyone sent me a list, as I asked, so that I could compile a "virtual library" and email it round after Christmas.
With the start of the fall semester, students were filing into the new classrooms and the final touches were being put on a "virtual library" with 400 computers.
