This article, provided by Walt Crawford of the Research Libraries Group in
_Online's_ January 1998 issue, makes a powerful argument that paper will
continue to be an indispensible information medium in the forseeable future
for both libraries and people in general. Among its conclusions: future
information will be available in paper, electronic, linear and hypertext
formats, and libraries will continue to be important as repositories of, as
well as gateways to knowledge and information. Crawford, a well known
philosopher of librarianship, has expanded on similar ideas in _Future
Libraries: Dreams, Madness & Reality_, a book he wrote with Michael Gorman
in 1995. [JS]
http://www.onlineinc.com/onlinemag/JanOL98/crawford1.html
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