I have just come across the current issue of Daedalus: Journal of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences (Vol 125 No 4 Fall 1996).
The issue celebrates the centennial of the New York Public Library and is
devoted to consideration of digital libraries. (There is an issue title:
'Books, bricks and bytes'.)
It is interesting in that it contains a mix of academic and public library
perspectives (largely US-based) as well as a selection of national library
views (including a piece by Brian Lang) and some brief reviews of
particular national developments.
There is a reflective opening essay by Peter Lyman called 'What is a
digital library? Technology, intellectual property and the public
interest'.
The editorial includes this sentence:
"Libraries are national treasures, byt they exist today in an
international framework, serving multifarious purposes that wuld have been
largely inconceivable even a few decades ago. This issue of DAEDALUS is
intended to pay tribute to the institution and those who serve them but
also those who see the need to support them, not least in these times when
there are so many other demands for public and private funds."
Lorcan
Lorcan Dempsey <URL:http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/~lisld/>
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