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  1. Hunt, P.J.: Interpreters as well as gatherers : the librarian of tomorrow ... today (1995) 0.00
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    Abstract
    The advent of digitization has profound implications for the information society as it rapidly changes the means of communicating. The broader implications of this transformation are responsible for the dramatic reinvention of businesses, organizations, governments, and entire cultures. Librarians and information professionals are grappling with these issues at a macro level, while current challenges posed by the issue of copyright illustrate further change taking place in their work. The way that knowledge is created is changing radically: as a result, a new role for the librarian is being forged (along with new opportunities); one that is more profound, requiring an understanding of the context in which information exists
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  2. Herzinger, S.: What is the future for cataloging? (1994) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Notes that the trends in US cataloguing all involve change. They include providing library users with better and deeper access to the materials owned by the library and to resources available through online gateways. Outsourcing is a viable cataloguing alternative for the future, but must be compared to doing the work in house. Greater cooperation with the Library of Congress and other libraries will occur. Cataloguing units and cataloguing time will be downsized and will require 'doing more with less'. Eventually, users may be able to obtain their information anywhere. However, there will still be a need for a cataloguer's organizational and analytical skills in order to make information accessible
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  3. Cooley, M.: Visions and problems of the post-industrial society (1996) 0.00
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  4. Goldstein, ?: ¬The Internet today & tomorrow : facing the new reality of the Internet (1997) 0.00
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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. Neubauer, K.W.; Binder, W.: Virtuelle Bibliothek : Resource Saring ohne Bibliotheksbestände? (1995) 0.00
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    Abstract
    The virtual library can be described as the ultimate in resource sharing. This now involves both electronically stored and printed information, often now available thorugh a flat range of production and through preprints. The number of printed publications in a library could fall by 50% in the next century. Institutions like universities will still have to offer advisory services and guidance to the virtual library
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  8. 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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  9. Rondeau, C.: ¬Les réseaux virtuels : cybersociety? (1996) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Attempts to synthesize the findings of American writers of disparate viewpoints on the social phenomena of virtual environments. Travel in virtual communities is always accompanied by tension between the real and the virtual. By observing user behaviour, the authors under review are attempting to discover what happens on networks; how a community can form from a database; how rules, conventions and new cultures are formed; and the effects of virtual environments on personality
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  10. 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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  11. 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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  12. 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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  13. 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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  14. Poulter, A.; Morris, A.; Dow, J.: LIS professionals as knowledge engineers (1994) 0.00
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  15. 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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  16. Ridi, R.: ¬La biblioteca virtuale come ipertesto (1996) 0.00
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    Abstract
    Since an increasing variety of electronic information media and their hybrid developments is available in libraries, a unifying concept is needed to obviate the constant creation of new fonds and catalogues, and the futile search for the illusory 'definitive' electronic product. Suggests that although the Internet provides only a superficial integration of various electronic media, its central concept is the unifying one of hypertextuality, whose 4 main elements are the following: multilinearity; hypermediality; integrability; and interactiveness. Explains these ideas, and describes also Philip Barker's suggested 4 categories of the technologically advanced library: multimedia, electronic, digital and virtual. Makes suggestions to help librarians progress towards the virtual library
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  17. Mendelsohn, S.: ¬The future of librarians (1994) 0.00
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  18. Daxner, M.: Welche Bibliothek? : Der Alptraum (1995) 0.00
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  19. 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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  20. Heath, F.: Libraries, information technology, and the future (1995) 0.00
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