Debate Topic:

"The book, though not yet dead is dying: librarians should say get over it and move on."

Readings:

Raymond Kurzweil, "The Future of LIbraries" Library Journal Jan 1992

Sven Birketts, "Into the Electronic Millenium" in The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic Age (New York: Faber and Faber, 1994).

Walt Crawford, "Paper Persists: Why Physical Library Collections Still Matter", Online Jan 1998 42-48

Friedman, Mathew Fuzzy Logic Ch.2

Last revised: June 2, 1999

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