bl.uk is top level domain name for British library websites. The online reservior for the knowledge. They hold over 13 million books, 920,000 journal and newspaper titles,  57 million patents, 3 million sound recordings, and so much more. This is exact place to search for information in the past. The features of the British Library are: 13 million items in our collections, 90,000 historical pictures and sounds and 9 million articles from 20,000 journals. The information of Advertising, just identifiying the keyword in the search box.

The similar pages are internet archive, another huge collections of many kinds of work done by the past. Imagine the webpages in 1990s. archive.org can bring them in front of you with finger tips. Basically, these are more likely to be behaviours of the government instead of personal ability. The new concept from Web2.0 implement the Wikipedia for years. The contribution from the general public is dedicated to those who don't possess the certain knowledge or information. The contribution makes the distribution. Exactly.

Great power comes to great responsibility, the sayings is from the Spider man, but universally true. In the information explosion era, how to successfully collect the piece of items and reapply them to the public is the managing principles for these kinds of providers. More and more to expect from these guru.

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