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[email protected]. Form of attribution to OCLC: “OCLC, Libraries at Webscale” The following are trademarks and/or service marks of OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc.: OCLC, WorldCat, WorldCat Local, WorldCat.org, OCLC WorldShare and “The world’s libraries. Connected.” Printed in the United States of America Cataloged in WorldCat on December !, !"## OCLC Control Number: ($$""&%%' ISBN: )(*-#-%%$%'-&'*-$ #-%%$%'-&'*-* Table of Contents Introduction: our world now scales ! Our Web wide world " The case for Webscale #! Libraries operating at Webscale #$ Big collaboration !# Appendix A: World views !" The future is personalized !# Creating and consuming a universe of content !$ In a flat world, there is one road