Stilly River Sage wrote, The Internet Archive would need a cash infusion for that kind of collection and everything would need to be scanned and organized - a huge project, but one way Joe's goal would be accomplished for the print and digitized audio and video parts of the collection. The physical disposition would still be up in the air.

I don't have much to add here, but I thought I'd post to keep this thread alive and try to make sure everyone who wants to see it, sees it.

As regards digitization, possibly some of us could help with the proofreading after the books are scanned (a necessary step!), whether the scans go on the Internet Archive or Google Books or somewhere else, but the physical disposition and conservation of the books is still an issue, and of course books that are in copyright could not be posted, so the physical archive remains the main issue.