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  • LIS 691 The Virtual Library - Crises and Controversies
    Week One: Introduction


    Debate Topic:

    "An electronic library is not a library"

    Readings:

    Harris, Michael H. and Stan A. Hannah. Into the Future: The Foundation of Library and Information Services in the Post-Industrial Era (Second Ed., Norwood, N.J.: Ablex, 1998) Ch.1 "The Information Age" and Ch.2 "Librarians Confront the Post-Industrial Era".

    Berring, Robert C. "Future Librarians" in Future Libraries Eds. R.H.Bloch and C. Heese. Berkeley (University of California Press, 1995). 94-115

    Friedman, Mathew Fuzzy Logic Ch.1

    Last revised: July 2, 1999

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