Best of Both Worlds

Wayne Clough, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, asks “How can we prepare ourselves to reach the generation of digital natives who bring a huge appetite—and aptitude—for the digital world?” He explains how the Smithsonian is tackling this issue in Best of Both Worlds: Museums, Libraries, and Archives in a Digital Age . Libraries and archives have already made many documents available through the Internet. The digital world presents a bigger challenge for museums; producing images of 3D ob