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Peer reviewedBriscoe, Peter; And Others – College and Research Libraries, 1986
On the eve of a major change in communications media (from printing to widespread electronic publishing), this article reexamines and projects into future the library's fundamental role as a social institution. Discussion covers three environmental trends, library as an institution, and public policy and economic choices. Twenty references are…
Descriptors: Electronic Publishing, Futures (of Society), Information Science, Library Automation
