You know, if I never hear anybody mention Bush, Nelson or Ranganathan
again I won't be sorry. Haven't we had an original idea in LibraryLand
since these guys were around? You'll notice they're all guys, too.
Mark Andrews
-----Original Message-----
From: Next generation catalogs for libraries
[mailto:NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu] On Behalf Of Simon Spero
Sent: Tuesday, May 01, 2007 9:13 PM
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] What has LIS learned?
On 5/1/07, Hahn, Harvey <hhahn_at_ahml.info> wrote:
>
>
> Sounds a bit like Vannever Bush's "Memex" machine from over 60 years
ago
> and Ted Nelson's original concept of hypertext from over 40 years ago
> (and his Project Xanadu to implement it). When it comes to
> interconnecting data, I guess it's true that what goes around comes
around.
Forget those newbies - Ranganathan is for use :-)
Simon // Colon Slash Slash is the new C++.
Received on Wed May 02 2007 - 07:37:29 EDT