John,
...raising the question of digital preservation.
I was interested in the view that humanists are now moving away from the
trad monograph for publishing their research, and would like to hear
more about the 'lunacy of academic publishing'.
Douglas
Douglas Brown
Editor, Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA)
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Chloe,
The death of print on paper was predicted when I was an MSc student in
1979 (well it was by me :-) ) but my office is still overflowing with
paper - they keep bringing it in when I'm not looking.
However it is also true I rarely print out e-mails or web pages, and I
confidently predict we all have more megabytes of professionally
interesting information stored on disc (magnetic and optical) than we do
on paper.
Regards,
John Smith,
The Templeman Library,
University of Kent, UK.
On Wed, 19 Oct 2005, Stewart, Chloe wrote:
> 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.
>
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