Electronic libraries

[Sue Kamm]

Try getting in touch with Cal State Monterey.  (I don't have an address 
for them, and I'm at home where I'm severely web-challenged.)  They were 
supposed to be all-electronic.  I seem to recall reading something 
recently about their library, and why the 'virtual' idea didn't really 
work.  

The biggest object in the road to all-electronic libraries is the cost of 
digitizing the sum of human written knowledge.  Until someone figures out 
how to put backfiles of newspapers and magazines as well as the text of 
every book published into machine-readable from, and to do it without 
having to charge an arm and a leg for it, we'll still need paper and/or 
microform.

Your friendly CyberGoddess and ALA Councilor,
Sue Kamm
email:  suekamm at class.org
"The University is not engaged in making ideas safe for students.  It is 
engaged in making students safe for ideas."
		-- Clark Kerr, president of the University of California, 1961