[ Alors, ]
Ceci n'est pas une bibliothèque :
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:-).
- Laval Hunsucker
Breukelen, Nederland
----- Original Message -----
> From: Jim Weinheimer <weinheimer.jim.l_at_GMAIL.COM>
> To: NGC4LIB_at_LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Cc:
> Sent: Thursday, July 14, 2011 10:31 AM
> Subject: Re: [NGC4LIB] "Is a Bookless Library Still a Library?"
>
> On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 10:50 PM, B.G. Sloan <bgsloan2_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> From Time magazine:
>>
>> "We've been hearing about it for years, but the bookless library
> has
>> finally arrived, making a beachhead on college campuses. At Drexel
>> University's new Library Learning Terrace, which opened just last
> month,
>> there is nary a bound volume..."
>>
>> See: http://ti.me/ooq5PI
>>
>
> Of course a library with no books is still a library. I think it is vital
> that librarians reconsider what defines the "library's collection"
> if they
> are even to survive. The job of librarians is not, and has never been, to
> place physical objects on shelves and keep them in order. This is mixing up
> the tasks of the library with the purposes of the library.
>
> What is a library? What purposes does it serve? What is the library supposed
> to do to fulfill the needs of the public or other community, who pays for
> it? The answers of 25 years ago to these questions are no longer valid.
>
> At the moment, there is still a need for printed books, but we should
> remember that practically everything printed today exists in an electronic
> version somewhere. All that would have to be done is for those people in
> charge of those electronic versions, to just make them generally available.
> The technology exists for this to happen right now; the public wants it. It
> is going to happen sooner or later, and probably sooner in the STME fields,
> much as we are seeing now.
>
> We must prepare ourselves, and that includes reconsidering the 19th century
> FRBR model of what users supposedly wanted back then, and RDA.
>
> James L. Weinheimer weinheimer.jim.l_at_gmail.com
> First Thus: http://catalogingmatters.blogspot.com/
> Cooperative Cataloging Rules: http://sites.google.com/site/opencatalogingrules
>
Received on Thu Jul 14 2011 - 07:48:42 EDT
