Life lines
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...
Saved in:
Published in | Smithsonian Vol. 39; no. 7; p. 30 |
---|---|
Main Author | |
Format | Magazine Article |
Language | English |
Published |
Washington
Smithsonian Institution
01.10.2008
Smithsonian Magazine |
Subjects | |
Online Access | Get full text |
Cover
Loading…
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. |
---|---|
Bibliography: | content type line 24 ObjectType-Commentary-1 SourceType-Magazines-1 |
ISSN: | 0037-7333 1930-5508 |