University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Electronic information exchange and its impact on libraries

Turoff, Murray; Hiltz, Starr Roxanne

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Title
Electronic information exchange and its impact on libraries
Author(s)
  • Turoff, Murray
  • Hiltz, Starr Roxanne
Issue Date
1979
Keyword(s)
  • Libraries --Automation
  • Library science --Data processing
  • Future technology trends
  • Disruptive technologies
Abstract
"It has become common parlance that we are entering the ""Information Age."" We would like to take the reader with us on an exploratory voyage to the edge of some current information-age computer technology that may transform the library. A precondition for joining this expedition is an understanding of the ""new world"" which we hope to discover and build. It is a societal state in which the library has become one of the anchors of what we call ""The Network Nation"" an era in which the amalgamation of computers and communications will reduce the time and cost needed to span distances between people and information, and among people communicating, to practically zero."
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (16th : 1979)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)
This paper is drawn from research supported by the National Science Foundation (DSI-77-21008 and MCS-78-00519).
Copyright and License Information
Copyright owned by Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois 1979.

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1979: The Role of the Library in an Electronic Society PRIMARY
16th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1979). Edited by F.W. Lancaster.