Moderator: Peter Brantley, executive director of the Digital Library Federation, is our newest contributor. See his biography at the end. Welcome, Peter! - D.R. For various reasons, in the last month I have been filled with "life-nostalgia." Our daughter recently turned seven, her celebration prompting like shadow puppets faint memories of my own childhood. My mother's birthday recently passed, but then, so had she a few years ago, so she was not around to enjoy it. I've watched the news reports on Edward Kennedy's cancer with profound sadness; a loved family member had his own brush with a...

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