Libraries and Information Technology: Towards the Twenty-First Century.

Allen, Matthew; Retzlaff, Lothar

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ERIC Number: EJ567610

Record Type: CIJE

Publication Date: 1998

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Libraries and Information Technology: Towards the Twenty-First Century.

Allen, Matthew; Retzlaff, Lothar

Australian Library Journal, v47 n1 p91-99 Feb 1998

The authors envisage a new future for libraries, one in which they assume a very proactive role, pushing, as well as pulling information back into the Web, in a manner similar to that in which a private electricity producer feeds back surplus power into the grid as well as taking electricity when needed. (Author)

Descriptors: Computer Networks, Futures (of Society), Information Dissemination, Information Services, Information Technology, Information Transfer, Library Development, Library Role, Library Services, Technological Advancement, World Wide Web

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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