Role of Computers in Libraries

• The computer represents a kind of “preemptive technology,’ which will “in due time displace the larger part of mankind’s present book centered communal memory.” (p.13) “.. In evolutionary terms the obvious analogy is with the spectacularly sudden extinction of the dinosaurs.”James Thompson The End of Libraries, p.16 (1982)

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