I want to begin by reading two letters to you which were published in the 1
April 1985 issue of Time magazine under the heading LIBRARY BYTES.
The first letter, from Kenneth N. Sharpe of Peachtree City, Georgia, asked
a question:
I see a conspiracy in the public library. Advocates of computers convinced
us that we should replace benign, inexpensive, non-energy consuming
card catalogs with expensive, maintenance-requiring,
energy-consuming terminals. This is progress?
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James A. Munn in Milwaukee writes with another opinion:
Each time I work on a computer, I am amazed at the potential it has and
the abundance of information I am able to retrieve. For the experienced
user, the joy of a computer is in finding valuable information by
surprise.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (22nd : 1985)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
http://hdl.handle.net/2142/1245
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