The end of libraries
James Thompson
(The author is the University Librarian at the University of Reading, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 2AE, England.)
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Abstract
In terms of size, arrangement and catalogues, the conventional library has reached an organisational and financial impasse. Coincidentally there has emerged a pre‐emptive new technology for the storage, handling and transmission of information, potentially better suited to the convenience of users. Libraries may disappear like the dinosaurs; or they may, by returning to first principles, be able to adapt and successfully survive.
Citation
Thompson, J. (1983), "The end of libraries", The Electronic Library, Vol. 1 No. 4, pp. 245-255. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb044603
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
Copyright © 1983, MCB UP Limited