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The Future of Annotation in a Digital (Paper) World

Marshall, C.

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Title
The Future of Annotation in a Digital (Paper) World
Author(s)
Marshall, C.
Issue Date
2000
Keyword(s)
  • Annotation
  • Bush, Vannevar
Abstract
If order-making in the large is part of the institutional mission of libraries, then order-making in the small—i.e., the informal work of annotating and organizing materials collected in the service of particular dayto- day work or pleasure—is part of the business of library patrons. This discussion focuses on just such activities; activities that stem from readers' engagements with texts, and possibly with each other, against a backdrop of real-world settings and practices. I hesitate to call digital library patrons users, since that is the word computer scientists tend to use to hide the characteristics of what we hope is a diverse population.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Successes & Failures of Digital Libraries: [papers presented at the 1998 Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing, March 22-24, 1998]
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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1998: Successes & Failures of Digital Libraries PRIMARY
35th Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (1998). Edited by Susan Harum and Michael Twidale.