Under the rubric “there is nothing new under the sun,” see the excellent article on Participatory Digital Libraries from 1999 by Diane H. Sonnenwald, Gary Marchionini, Barbara M. Wildemuth, Bert J. Dempsey, Charles L. Viles, Helen R. Tibbo, and John B. Smith of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
http://sils.unc.edu/research/publications/reports/TR-2001-03.pdf


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