To create technologies that maximize utilization of scholarly content in libraries for study, research and scholarly productivity by dramatically expanding digital access to print collections content, removing inefficiencies from the research process and providing revolutionary new discovery+research+study systems while maintaining compliance with copyright law.

The role libraries and librarians play in helping their patrons find unbiased information is especially challenging in the digital age. The Web has become a powerful source of misinformation – the biggest advertising Web sites, both social and search, track each user with algorithms that maximize the time users spend viewing the advertising by identifying the content that aligns with the user’s pre-existing opinions, without regard for accuracy. Even without these algorithms, instant access to Web search results makes it all too easy for people to disregard more vetted sources of information. The $100+ billion that libraries have invested in scholarly content over decades and centuries is far more factual and independent of political or social affiliation than a majority of what is found on the Web, and unlike the Web, printed content is essentially immutable. While highly innovative new research technologies are of great value to PhD researchers, they can also empower students and the general public to find vetted and unbiased information, which can help to create an anti-misinformation movement, helping to reduce disagreements in our society to just those topics that are actually arguable.