Also it was enshrined in the book below and the "Mighty Micro" by
Christopher Evans in the late 70's.
Title: The collapse of work / (by) Clive Jenkins & Barrie Sherman
Publisher London : Eyre Methuen, 1979
As one of my Library lecturers told us the book (and writing on paper in
general),is a wonderful invention and a piece of technology that has
stood the test of an awful long time.
He said "you cannot take a computer in the bath".
Once we get electronic pages into which we can load anything we want to
read then we may start to see the decline in the use of paper and the
actual need for Physical books.
Since my research in the late 1970's into this at Lancaster University
when I concluded that the papaerless office was still a long way off, I
have been awaiting such a breakthrough, to make the paperless office a
real possibility. There are things around now that are starting to
resemble reusable electronic books and newspapers etc. I would hope in
the next 10 years these might become more standardardised and robust.
Then we might well see a decline in the use of paper.
Cheers
Steve
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-----Original Message-----
From: A general Library and Information Science list for news and
discussion. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Brown, Douglas
Sent: 24 October 2005 10:39
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Subject: Re: Guardian column on decline of the book
The paperless office was prophesised as imminent in 1976.
Douglas
Douglas Brown
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From: A general Library and Information Science list for news and
discussion. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gwyneth Parker
Sent: 23 October 2005 17:32
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Subject: Re: Guardian column on decline of the book
Dear Chloe et al,
The paperless society bit is even older! I seem to remember it was as
far back as the 1980s... even before that, perhaps?!!!
All the best!
Gwyneth
George Macgregor <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
And of course, recent research has revealed that people (including
students) prefer to read from paper and, although sourcing much of their
information online, prefer to print much of it before consuming. Books
sales are also up quite significantly.
From a more recreational perspective, one is less likely to take
documents or books to the beach, to bed or into the bath if they require
a power supply or use a battery!
The observations made by the QCA are, I think, largely correct, but what
Mr Fox infers from these observations is highly questionable. Still,
nothing like a sensational newspaper article to get the debate going...
George
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: A general Library and Information Science list for news and
> discussion. [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of p.willimott
> Sent: 19 October 2005 11:19
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Guardian column on decline of the book
>
> Me: I read that bit about the paperless office, looked round mine, and
> laughed. Our students use books, the internet, whatever gives them the
> information they need, and art students in particular need the quality
> of image you get in a book, rather than the pixelly stuff on the
> internet.
>
> PatW
>
>
> The death of the book was being confidently predicted when I was a
> Master's student in 1996. Oddly I still have the problem of bursting
> library shelves and insatiable demand for print books even in so
> 'electronic' a field as medicine. My local Borders bookshop is packed
> every time I enter, and my home is awash with books, most of which
> belong to my partner, an academic in Classics who is also an
> insatiable online user (including for buying books).
>
> And the paperless office? I wish.
>
> Chloe Stewart
> Library Manager (Clinical Services)
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> Stobhill Hospital
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> Glasgow
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