Communicating with the New Electronic Libraries (original) (raw)

Abstract

New library and publishing technological developments are discussed from the point of view of how they will affect a library searcher of the future. Any library can become the entry point to a world-wide network of libraries, making almost all the world's literature available to any searcher. This, in turn, imposes requirements for better means of control of a search and better terminals, as well as a change of focus on the part of the library. Libraries are seen as developing into communications centers whose primary mission is helping users solve search problems, rather than repositories of information packages.

Date of this Version

April 1981

Charles T. Meadow, "Communicating with the New Electronic Libraries." _Proceedings of the IATUL Conferences._Paper 1.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/iatul/1981/papers/1

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Communicating with the New Electronic Libraries

New library and publishing technological developments are discussed from the point of view of how they will affect a library searcher of the future. Any library can become the entry point to a world-wide network of libraries, making almost all the world's literature available to any searcher. This, in turn, imposes requirements for better means of control of a search and better terminals, as well as a change of focus on the part of the library. Libraries are seen as developing into communications centers whose primary mission is helping users solve search problems, rather than repositories of information packages.