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Crawford, Walt – American Libraries, 1999
Discusses debates that still continue over the value of card catalogs versus online catalogs and other library technology. Highlights include user opinions and needs, libraries being ahead of users in the use of technology, the information age, the value of cataloging, full-text searching, meaning extraction, dataspaces, and the Internet. (LRW)
Descriptors: Cataloging, Internet, Library Automation, Library Catalogs
Cisler, Steve – American Libraries, 1996
Discusses the effects of technological change and demographic shifts on the future of public libraries. Topics include displacement through disintermediation (replacing professional librarians with automated systems), the voucher movement, impact of new media on publishing, new information aggregators, cheaper computing equipment and Internet…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Community Programs, Costs, Demography
