Dertouzos on future libraries

[Sheryl Dwinell]

>>But they will also become managers of the information links
>>to other knowledge sites,
>
>In a book that staggers between the radically imaginative and the mundane, 
>this observation could easily describe what is going on in many libraries 
>today.  
>
>>with the important proviso that
>>they, the libraries, control the quality of these virtual
>>bookshelves,
>
>Bingo.  Another dead-center description of a value-adding service that 
>libraries have long provided. 

Like Erik, I made some of the same observations when I read Dertouzos'
statements. I wonder if he even bothered to go talk to the librarians at
his own institution. 

Sheryl Dwinell
Cataloger/Database Management Librarian
Memorial Library, Marquette University
P.O. Box 3141
Milwaukee, WI 53201-3141
dwinells at vms.csd.mu.edu
414-288-3542