Vision for 2013
• Readers and researchers, students and teachers around the world search for words and phrases using Internet engines that perform federated and broadcast searches on multiple virtual memories.  More than 15,000,000 books have been digitized and conversion completed of the backsets of virtually all scholarly journals.  Government documents going back to the 18th-century have been converted to digital form as well.  All of these texts are available as page images, and for most of them, there are versions coded using XML are available for searching.  All books, journals, and other documents published since the turn of the 21st-century are available in digital form as well.  Words, phrases, and even concepts can be searched in the virtual global collection as a result.
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