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A vice president of a leading software company argued that academic libraries as we've traditionally known them are a "dying breed," too often pursuing a "lost cause." Fortunately, at their best, museum libraries are quickly transforming themselves-from information providers...

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Published inSmithsonian Vol. 39; no. 7; p. 30
Main Author Clough, Wayne G
Format Magazine Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Washington Smithsonian Institution 01.10.2008
Smithsonian Magazine
Subjects
Academic libraries
Appreciation
Computer software
Digital libraries
Electronic dictionaries and encyclopedias
Electronic reference
Electronic reference books
Historical text analysis
Libraries
Museums
Painters
Painters (Artists)
Services
Social networks
Software industry
United States
United States > US
New York City New York
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Summary:A vice president of a leading software company argued that academic libraries as we've traditionally known them are a "dying breed," too often pursuing a "lost cause." Fortunately, at their best, museum libraries are quickly transforming themselves-from information providers to connectors, of people with common interests with each other, and with millions of images of scientific specimens, historic artifacts, works of art and all kinds of digitized documents about them.
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ISSN:0037-7333
1930-5508