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May 11, 2007: University of British Columbia Opens Digital Library
"'We're particularly eyeballing rare books and special collections in terms of having our more important and valuable material available to a wider audience,' said Chris Hives, the UBC archivist behind this growing paperless library."
"'What we have focused on most recently are smaller but important collections, like the [Charles] Darwin letters and Florence Nightingale letters.'"
