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What people are saying - Write a reviewReview: Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness and RealityUser Review - Katy - GoodreadsFor a book written in 1992, it makes pretty sound predictions about the digital future of libraries, but I wouldn't read it for fun. Read full review Related books
Common terms and phrasesacademic libraries American assume average better CD-ROM circulation collections communication cost data and information disk dots per inch economic electronic distribution electronic form electronic journals electronic publishing electronic texts FirstSearch funding future libraries futurists gigabytes human hypertext I-way in-library indexes Internet invisible college issue just-in-time knowledge least librarians librarianship libraries and library library service library users linear text magazines materials means ment Michael Gorman million newspapers online catalogues paper PC Magazine percent personal computer print-on-paper printing on demand problems Project Project Gutenberg Project Xanadu public libraries reader reality reason records reference replace Research Libraries S. R. Ranganathan scholars screen sense serials crisis serve solution storage strong libraries surfing technojunkies technolust thing tion transactions tronic union catalogues universal workstation virtual library virtual reality Xanadu Popular passagesPage 12 - Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. Page 4 - ... function which political economy recognizes as so important, of bringing goods to the place where they are wanted, and so, also, creating demand. In this busy generation, when the hurried man grumbles that "all the time there is" is not enough for him, the librarian makes time for his fellow-mortals by saving it ; for a minute saved is a minute added. And this function of organizing, of indexing, of time-saving and of thought-saving, is associated peculiarly with the librarian of the nineteenth... Page 129 - Building the Electronic Superhighway," 1 ff. 3. Time, 3 May 1993, 13. 4. Richard M. Dougherty and Carol Hughes, Preferred Futures for Libraries: A Summary of Six Workshops with University Provosts and Library Directors (Mountain View, Calif.: Research Libraries Group, 1991). Page 2 - Odin's Runes are a significant feature of him. Runes, and the miracles of ' magic' he worked by them, make a great feature in tradition. Runes are the Scandinavian Alphabet ; suppose Odin to have been the inventor of letters, as well as ' magic,' among that people ! It is the greatest invention man has ever made, this of marking- down the unseen thought that is in him by written characters. It is a kind of second speech, almost as miraculous as the first. Page 57 - There are several reasons for this, not the least of which is the fact that the area had nothing special in the way of natural advantages to offer. Page 5 - Libraries are not wholly or even primarily about information. They are about the preservation, dissemination, and use of recorded knowledge in whatever form it may come so that humankind may become more knowledgeable; through knowledge reach understanding; and, as an ultimate goal, achieve wisdom Page 112 - I too am not a bit tamed .... I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. Page 3 - Libraries exist to acquire, give access to, and safeguard carriers of knowledge and information in all forms and to provide instruction and assistance in the use of collections to which their users have access. Page 3 - a good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit... Page 15 - Paper is completely random-access; it's high resolution; it's portable; it's almost interactive in the way it gives you the ability to determine the pace, to go backward or forward. Paper is still the best way of delivering high thought content" (quoted in Crawford and Gorman 1995, 15). References to this bookFrom other books
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