Who Will Run and Use Libraries? How?.

Atkinson, Hugh C.

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Publication Date: 1984

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Who Will Run and Use Libraries? How?

Atkinson, Hugh C.

Library Journal, v109 n17 p1905-07 Oct 15 1984

This essay discussing effects of automation on library personnel and library services notes civil service structures; failures in personnel administration; rigidity in library service; access to information by "temporary" language; evaluative, judgmental analysis of the book, data, or journal; dangers of centralized decision-making and computer safeguards; and unknown library users. (EJS)

Descriptors: Cataloging, Decision Making, Information Retrieval, Job Skills, Library Administration, Library Automation, Library Material Selection, Library Materials, Library Personnel, Library Services, Online Systems

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers

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Language: English

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