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On Mon, 11 Oct 1993 16:53:00 EDT [charley seavey] said:
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>In all this great rush to climb on the electronic bandwagon, let us
>remember that there are any number of depository libraries who simply
>are not up to coping with the internet, let alone all the other stuff
>that is going on.  It is very important that we move into an electronc
>age, but do not assume that the electronic junkies reading this are
>the depository universe.  We cannot abandon the great majority of the
>1400 depositories simply because the top several (?) hundred see the
>approach of the electronic millenium.
 
To me this is like saying in 1905, don't think that because the techno-
junkie libraries are getting telephones that they ALL will.  Those
people and institutions that cannot cope with electronic communication
will be severely disadvantaged.  That does not mean they cannot survive,
it just means that they will not be part of the mainstream.
 
Dave Gomberg, role model for those who don't ask much in their fantasy lives.
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