On Dec 29, 2010, at 10:09 AM, Laval Hunsucker wrote:
> http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/kultur/aktuell/schneller_lesen_1.8925672.html
Laval, thank you for bringing this to our attention, and from a Google translated version of the text [1]:
The increasing availability of full-text editions of texts could,
however, the right of free literary reading habits in the years
to radically change and sooner or later bring the digital
readers: readers are from users... "The most important research
tool," said the two Munster scientists write in an essay as a
declaration of bankruptcy may sound independent text
interpretation "would be a system for managing search commands
and hit lists." Reading and first-hand knowledge in such a
process quite cumbersome and would only disturb the search
process, so is a rule of two, "looking first, then read!"
In short, the fact that the written word is less frequently bound to the printed book (all puns intended), changes the way we access and use the written word. By extension, this ought to drive the way the written word is analyzed and described. Again, libraries (and library catalogs) are not so much about books as much as they are about the things inside them -- data, information, knowledge, and ultimately pathways to understanding.
[1] translation - http://bit.ly/dIXjTd
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Eric Lease Morgan
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Received on Wed Dec 29 2010 - 10:30:28 EST