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Additional Physical Format: | 994831913402418 |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Walt Crawford; Michael Gorman |
ISBN: | 0838906478 9780838906477 |
OCLC Number: | 31605103 |
Description: | vii, 198 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Credo -- The life of print -- The madness of technolust -- Electronic publishing and distribution -- Coping with electronic information -- Deconstructing dreams of the all-electronic future -- Enemies of the library -- The diversity of libraries -- Economics of collection and access -- Survival guide to the serials crisis -- Future libraries: beyond the walls -- Successful libraries make their own luck. |
Responsibility: | Walt Crawford & Michael Gorman. |
Abstract:
This text aims to show that in place of futuristic dreaming and madness, libraries can embrace advanced technologies while retaining their role as service-oriented repositories of all formats of organized information and knowledge.
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