The twenty-first century technology's impact on academic research and law libraries

• Main Author: Taylor, Betty W (Author)
• Other Authors: Mann, Elizabeth B, Munro, Robert John
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Boston Mass K.G. Hall 1988
• Subjects: Law libraries > Automation; Academic libraries > Automation; Research libraries > Automation; Library science > Technological innovations; Library science > Forecasting
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 Information technology has had a pro- found impact on library operations and services, but the full implications of the change have yet to be realized. Some have predicted that by the year 2000 we will have a "paperless society" and "electronic libraries" and that books and libraries as we know them will be obsolete. Others believe that libraries can and should enlarge their role to become the center of the technological revolution. Just what will technology mean for aca- demic and law libraries? How must they change their collection development, personnel, and computer requirements? What kinds of informa- tion access will the library be able to provide? How much will all of this cost? To find the answers to these questions, authors Taylor, Mann, and Munro surveyed 224 decision makers in the forefront of these changes: ARL librarians, law librarians, law deans, and professors of library science. In this volume, they present and analyze the responses to construct a scenario of the library in the year 2000 and beyond.