Future Libraries: Dreams, Madness and Reality

by Walt Crawford, Michael E. Gorman, Michael Gorman

Book Overview

This text aims to show that in place of futuristic dreaming and madness, libraries can embrace advanced technologies while retaining their role as service-oriented repositories of all formats of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0838906478
• ISBN13: 9780838906477
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: American Library Association
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

fighting the good fight

Crawford & Gorman's book has been nothing but aninspiration to me. I am an LIS graduate studentand these two librarians are heroes.They utterly DEMOLISH the feasiblity/desirabilityof "All digital libraries" and make solid arguementsfor real, existing libraries.These guys simply just ROCK.Read William F. Birdsall also, to get a Cannuckperspective on the same issue.I dislike Crawford's non-sequitors about"socialism" but beyond that, everyprogressive librarian should read themLONG LIVE LIBRARIANSHIP!

Best Library Book of the decade

What they didn't teach you in school. Clear thoughs on the future of libraries, rather than hype and blue sky. If you only read one book on libraries, read this one or his newest, Being Analog. If you haven't read either, you are not well informed on the subject. Hint: Professors from Schools of Information Science hate them.