groegerova in Barok 2018
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"Digital libraries#Libraries")
Well, just look _online_.
So what do digital libraries do?
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You write a manuscript, have it published,
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and someone scans it later.
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Or scrapes it from somewhere, since most books today are born digital and live
their digital lives.
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Digital libraries need to be creative.
They don’t just preserve and circulate books.
[](https://monoskop.org/log/?p=10262)
They engage in extending print runs, making new editions, readily
reproducible, unlimited editions.
[](https://monoskop.org/images/d/de/Hirsal_Josef_Groegerova_Bohumila_eds_Slovo_pismo_akce_hlas.pdf#page=87)
This one comes with something extra. Isn’t this beautiful? You can read along
someone else.
In this case we know these annotations come from the Slovak avant-garde visual
poet and composer [Milan Adamciak](/Milan_Adamciak "Milan Adamciak").
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"Milan Adamciak")
...standing in the middle.
A couple of pages later...
[](https://monoskop.org/images/d/de/Hirsal_Josef_Groegerova_Bohumila_eds_Slovo_pismo_akce_hlas.pdf#page=117)
...you can clearly see how he found out about a book containing one million
random digits [see note 24 on the image]. The strangest book.
[](https://monoskop.org/log/?p=5780)
He was still alive when we put it up on Monoskop, and could experience it.
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Digital libraries may seem like virtual, grey places, nonplaces.
But these little chance encounters
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