{"title":"Computers in service to libraries of the future: library requirements","authors":"W. N. Locke","doi":"10.1145/1476793.1476809","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"An outstanding computer engineer recently compared libraries to the whaling industry, a relic of the romantic past. As whales disappeared, so will books, he said. We should stop building libraries, store all information on tape and retrieve it through consoles.","PeriodicalId":326625,"journal":{"name":"AFIPS '69 (Spring)","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"1969-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"1","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"AFIPS '69 (Spring)","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/1476793.1476809","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
An outstanding computer engineer recently compared libraries to the whaling industry, a relic of the romantic past. As whales disappeared, so will books, he said. We should stop building libraries, store all information on tape and retrieve it through consoles.