Libraries have always been around. It's hard to imagine a world without libraries. In this sense, the same thing is preserving libraries--at least for now--that is undermining their timely reform: institutional inertia.
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From: Next generation catalogs for libraries [NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Dan Matei [Dan_at_CIMEC.RO]
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Subject: [NGC4LIB] It hurts....
... (especially) when said by a Princeton professor.
<quote from="Peter Singer">
Today, if you have an Internet connection, you have at your fingertips an amount of information previously available only
to those with access to the world’s greatest libraries – indeed, in most respects what is available through the Internet
dwarfs those libraries, and it is incomparably easier to find what you need.
</quote>
http://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/singer61/English
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