"The advantages of computers in libraries, although not a supposition which
one can afford to accept blindly, are as real as the advantages gained from the
other pieces of mechanical equipment which have become everyday tools for
accomplishing libraries' objectives. A major difference, however, is that a
library's investment in computers, attendant staff, supplies, etc., is so much
greater in terms of time, money, and energy, and in general commitment to
examine minutely the operations the computer is to perform, that the
comparison with other machines seems less valid. It is not a crisis if a system
planned around a tape-operated typewriter does not work and one is forced to
return to a more traditional method. The situations are similar in that it is not
necessarily the technology at fault, but perhaps the technique. One might call
the problem ""The fault, dear Brutus, . . . syndrome."""
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Clinic on Library Applications of Data Processing (9th : 1972)
ISSN
0069-4789
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
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