Being Analog: Creating Tomorrow's Libraries Examining digital resources in libraries and the people that use them, this work offers an alternative model to a simplistic digital future. The author challenges popular notions of the virtual library, asserting that the complex mix of technologies projects no clear path to the future and that peop
| Title | : | Being Analog: Creating Tomorrow's Libraries |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.59 (728 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0838907547 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 245 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1999-01-01 |
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Examining digital resources in libraries and the people that use them, this work offers an alternative model to a simplistic digital future. The author challenges popular notions of the virtual library, asserting that the complex mix of technologies projects no clear path to the future and that people use technology in unexpected ways.
Editorial : From Library Journal Because of my tremendous respect for Crawford, Access Services Officer of the Research Libraries Group, I read and reread Being Analog to see if the problem with it is me. Maybe it is, but I couldn't figure out for whom the book is written or why. It is a collection of vintage Crawford, so well aged that much of it was already dated when he first thought, said, or wrote it. You will recognize the Crawford voice, the warning, and even many of the villains. These are not exactly "straw targets" as Walt takes great pains to point out, but surely they are rare enemies of libraries, singled out to give the author targets for his attack on a kind of technovision that very few professionals hold anymore, indeed that very few ever did believe. It is the "digital dreamers" who fake "hardnosed practicality" and "those who still write about digital libraries as replacements for mixed libraries" whom Crawford attacks. I doubt any exist in the extreme terms he uses for them, al
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