Re: [Sigia-l] From libraries to Œ libratories ¹

[Lyle Kantrovich]

Ziya,

When including an excerpt in a post, as you've been nice enough to do
many times, it would help if you could indicate that it's an excerpt
or a quote...otherwise it looks like those are your words.

Thanks.

Lyle

On 12/15/05, Listera <listera at rcn.com> wrote:
> While the eighties of the last century were a time of local automation for
> libraries and the nineties the decade in which libraries embraced the
> Internet and the Web, now is the age in which the big search engines and
> institutional repositories are gaining a firm footing. This heralds a new
> era in both the evolution of scholarly communication and its agencies
> themselves, i.e. the libraries.
>
> Until now libraries and publishers have developed a digital variant of
> existing processes and products, i.e. catalogues posted on the Web, scanned
> copies of articles, e­mail notification about acquisitions or expired
> lending periods, or traditional journals in a digital jacket. However, the
> new OAI repositories and services based upon them have given rise to
> entirely new processes and products, libraries transforming themselves into
> partners in setting up virtual learning environments, building an
> institution¹s digital showcase, maintaining academics¹ personal Web sites,
> designing refereed portals and ‹ further into the future ‹ taking part in
> organising virtual research environments or collaboratories. Libraries are
> set to metamorphose into Œlibratories¹, an imaginary word to express their
> combined functions of library, repository and collaboratory. In such
> environments scholarly communication will be liberated from its current
> copyright bridle while its coverage will be both broader ‹ including primary
> data, audiovisuals and dynamic models ‹ and deeper, with cross­disciplinary
> analyses of methodologies and applications of instruments. Universities will
> make it compulsory to store in their institutional repositories the results
> of research conducted within their walls for purposes of academic reporting,
> review committees, and other modes of clarification and explanation. Big
> search engines will provide access to this profusion of information and
> organise its mass customization.
>
> <http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue10_12/waaijers/>
>
> Likely? Too late?
>
> ----
> Ziya
>
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Lyle

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