Humanizing information technology: Cultural evolution and the institutionalization of electronic text publishing

Day, Mark Tyler

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Title

Humanizing information technology: Cultural evolution and the institutionalization of electronic text publishing

Author(s)

Day, Mark Tyler

Issue Date

1994

Keyword(s)

Electronic texts

Abstract

This paper examines the process by which new academic library services are created in response to a changing academic ecology with reference to a particular case study that of Indiana University's still developing Library Electronic Text Resource Service (LETRS). It explains the recent rise of interest in electronic texts as a product of social forces generated by the evolution of industrial capitalism. This evolution has resulted in the creation of complex social organizations and information technologies designed to control the complex processes of industrial expansion. We are only now beginning to develop adequate scientific explanations of this evolution.

Publisher

Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Series/Report Name or Number

Literary texts in an electronic age: Scholarly implications and library services [papers presented at the 1994 Clinic on Library applications of Data Processing, April 10-12, 1994]

ISSN

0069-4789

Type of Resource

text

Language

en

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