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  1. Cooley, M.: Visions and problems of the post-industrial society (1996) 0.00
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  2. Goldstein, ?: ¬The Internet today & tomorrow : facing the new reality of the Internet (1997) 0.00
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  3. Ford, N.: Information retrieval and creativity : towards support for the original thinker (1999) 0.00
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    Abstract
    This is a speculative paper in which the requirements of IR systems to support relatively creative, as well as more convergent thinking are discussed. The nature of creative thinking is explored, as is the extent to which a range of current information systems is able to support key intellectual processes associated with it. The development of IR systems capable of providing more direct support for creative thinking will depend on the greater integration of high order knowledge representations and flexible, fuzzy pattern-matching techniques. Such developments may enhance the ability of information seekers to place before themselves a range of information sufficiently - but not excessively - rich in diversity to facilitate the development of relatively divergent - as well as more convergent - ideas.
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  4. Kochtanek, T.R.: On the role of libraries and librarians in a virtual landscape (1995) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Addresses issues relating to the concept of virtual library as they impact the information professions. Concludes that a niche for librarians and librarianship can be established in this emerging landscape of virtual access and real time delivery of new forms of information
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  5. Batt, C.: ¬The four paradigms (1996) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Considers whether the growing power of IT and networking can be harnessed by public librarians to make fundamental changes to the opportunities facing them, rather than merely delivering existing services more effectively or cheaply. Presents 4 paradigms as a means of raising questions about what can and should be done to make the public library the central agency in the information (or learning) society. They comprise: the public library as an agent for community computing; as the community university; as the local service in a global network; and as the personal virtual library
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  6. Line, M.B.: Reengineering libraries for a lifelong learning society (1997) 0.00
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    Abstract
    The environment in which libraries everywhere in the developed world operate is undergoing massive changes, most of them driven or influenced by information technology. Discusses 2 trends that are having a fundamental impact on libraries: lifelong learning and the shift from teaching to learning. Presents concepts of academic and public libraries of the future, where culture, learning and research will be fostered, and where most of the competencies of librarians and information professionals will become more rather than less needed, because information handling skills will be of prime importance
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  7. Green, A.: Towards the digital library : how relevant is eLib to practitioners? (1997) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Attempts to assess the impact and relevance of the Electronic Libraries Programme (eLib), initiated by the Follett Report on the future of libraries in the UK. Identifies some of the main characteristics of the programme and attempts to assess the impact of the different groups of projects within it, including electronic journals, electronic short loan, access to network resources and electronic document delivery. Includes the views of a number of working librarians at Swansea University
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  8. Bakken, F.: ¬The possible role of libraries in the digital future (1998) 0.00
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    Abstract
    There is a worldwide effort to develop the Information Society in order to support new economic growth. A new economy is planned which to a large extent will be based on the trading of intellectual property on the global network under the umbrella of the development of electronic commerce. Different library types will meet different challenges brought about by this shift in the global economy. In its optimal form, e-commerce of intellectual property will mean that from every access point on the global network it will be possible to search, order, download and pay for all kinds of items or commodities which can, in turn, be stored and transported digitally. One of the most serious challenges to library roles will be for those libraries which have offered services to the general public, such as public libraries, or to a large part of the public (such as students in an academic library). These libraries are easily defined as political projects established to fulfil societal aims. New roles in the digital future have to be developed in accordance with the needs of market forces in general and in accordance with the laws of competition
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  9. Hauptman, R.; Anderson, C.L.: ¬The people speak : the dispersion and impact of technology in American libraries (1994) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Reviews selected surveys of the status of technological applications in librarires and reports results of a survey, of 200 public libraries, 200 school libraries, 200 special libraries, and 200 college libraries and university libraries, randomly selected from the American Library Directory, to investigate the current attitudes towards technological applications and implementations. Results indicate that very few professional information professionals believe that their facilities contain state of the art equipment: a conclusion strengthened by the fact that only one third of the respondents have OPACs or use electronic mail, and less than 50% have access to CD-ROMs. In the case of the more esoteric applications, only 2% make use of expert systems, only 4% have hypertext, and 8% have voice mail. Concludes that, as money tightens throughout the 90s, libraries will have to seek out new technologies as a means of delivering quality information services at a reasonable cost
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  10. Poulter, A.; Morris, A.; Dow, J.: LIS professionals as knowledge engineers (1994) 0.00
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  11. Valauskas, E.J.: Libraries as multimedia machines : the impossibility of digital collections (1995) 0.00
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    Abstract
    The concept of a digital library has been stimulated by recent advances in computing technology. These developments hold the promise of transforming libraries into interactive centres of learning and research by virtue of inexpensive digital storage, easy-to-use search engines, and powerful computing hardware. However, libraries are handicapped in their move to digital collections by enormous legal problems in securing rights to much of the current literature. Solutions to this dilemma are not on the immediate horizon, but eventually will include changes in the current copyright law and technological arrangements to protect the interests of the owners of intellectual property. Suggests that librarians might find a more valuable role not in getting information to an electronic state, but in being its organizers and facilitators
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  12. Mendelsohn, S.: ¬The future of librarians (1994) 0.00
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  13. Larson, R.R.: Design and development of a network-based electronic library (1994) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Among the proposed innovations in the Clinton Administration's plans to develop a National Information Infrastructure is the creation of, and support for, digital or electronic libraries to store and provide access to the vast amounts of information expected to made available over the 'information superhighway'. Although the exact nature and future architecture of such libraries is still a matter for experimentation (and debate), there are several pioineering efforts underway to establish electronic libraries and to provide access to them. This paper describes one such effort underway at the University of California at Berkeley. In collaboration with four other universities we are developing interoperable electronic library servers containing the Computer Science technical reports for each participant and making them available over the Internet using standard protocols
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  14. Heath, F.: Libraries, information technology, and the future (1995) 0.00
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  15. Walker, T.D.: ¬L'¬apparition du computer : epistemology and the impact of networked computers on society (1996) 0.00
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    Abstract
    If we are to learn about the impact of computers and networks on society, it will be necessary to address issues from broad cultural-historical perspectives, such as has been done for print culture by those in the 'histoire du livre' tradition. There are paradoxes faced by users of the Internet that have direct implications on their conceptions of the organization of knowledge. Perceptions of knowledge structures may play roles in searching habits or in deciding about he overall appropriateness of a Net search. The Net has been compared to a world brain and is here placed in the context of an early conception of a world brain
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  16. Prestamo, A.T.: Virtuality and the future of the printed word : challenges and implications for academic libraries (1996) 0.00
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    Abstract
    References to virtual libraries, virtual technology, virtual reality and the Information Superhighway fill technology and library journals, conference programmes, and the popular press. Discusses various definitions of the virtual library and observes that what has so far taken place in academic libraries is merely modernization and automation. To move beyond this stage to a transformation of the academic library and its services new strategies are required, including a reengineering of organizational structures and processes. But ransformation cannot occur in isolation and collaboration and cooperation must reach beyond individual departments, libraries, and campuses, and include commercial as well as academic interests. Suggests how a transformed academic library of the future might function in terms of the physical library; the library's services; organizational structure and personnel; and library networks. 4 potential network models are examined
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  17. Billington, J.H.: American public libraries in the information age : constant purpose in changing times (1998) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Suggests that the public library system in America is unique among nations for universal accessibility and openness to knowledge at community level. Suggests 4 features are distinctive: continuous expansion of the body of knowledge; knowledge accessibility in a free society; libraries as 'temples of pluralism', and simultaneously a unifying force in communal relations. Ideals are threatened by the information flood generated by new technology, with its repercussions on the communal functions of libraries. The Library of Congress's National Digital Library aims at a leadership role in the new electronic environment
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  18. Schwarzwalder, R.: ¬The sci/tech image invasion : approaches to managing the digital library (1995) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Gives an overview of developments in full image delivery of science and technology information via networks. These developments are leading to the realisation of a digital library. Looks at the options information professions have in this time of transition. Examines how academic, public and special libraries and freelancers can response to these challenges
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  19. Wilson, T.D.: Redesigning the university library in the digital age (1998) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Business process re-engineering (or redesign) has achieved mixed results in business and industry but it offers an approach to thinking about the future of academic libraries in the digital age that is worth considering. This paper outlines the forces that are currently affecting academic libraries in the UK and proposes a strategy whereby the transformation from the handling of artefacts to the handling of electronic sources may be effected with maximum benefit to the information user.
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  20. Webb, T.D.: ¬The frozen library : a model for twenty-first century libraries (1995) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Far from being 'paperless', libraries of the 21st century will not wholly convert from print to electronic formats, as many have predicted. Instead, libraries of the future will combine information in many formats, print and non-print, and partition their collections into various electronic, computerised, media and print formats; in effect 'freezing' portions of the collection in their most appropriate formats based on the content and usage of materials, in somewhat the same way as libraries of the late 20th century 'froe' their catalogues during their retrospective conversion prpjects. As part of the coming climatic adaptation, a new and important occupation of future libraries will be the design, construction and maintenance of unique, value-added databases to hold information that is immediately pertinent to the specific needs of the library's patrons. In this new type of librarianship, the lines separating librarian, researcher and publisher will become flexible in order to capture information needed immediately by library users
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