"I believe it was Adlai Stevenson who said: ""Man does not live by words
alone, but he sometimes has to eat them."" No one wants to be reminded
of anything but his successes! So, I sense that in putting together their
papers for these proceedings, my colleagues have squirmed at least as
uncomfortably as I. Librarians know that the inventory of failures in
library automation is long and dismal. However, this is not intended to be
a series of obituaries; rather, my purpose is to review the period of transition
from completely manual to nearly fully automated systems, to try to
see what can be learned from analyzing the failures, and to extract some
general observations in answer to the question: what hath technology
wrought?"
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (15th : 1978)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
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