Nov 26 2018
James H. Billington, the librarian of Congress for nearly three decades, who led the nation's treasure house of knowledge into the digital age (not without controversy) and added millions of books, films and cultural artifacts to its historic collections, including a trove of tweets, died last Tuesday in Washington. He was 89.
Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information on it.
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