[WEB4LIB] Re: Predictions for the next...

[Avi Rappoport]

I really like the point about sharing expensive resources and obscure 
skills.  It's hard to market though.

Avi

At 10:52 AM -0800 1/1/2000, Gary E. Masters wrote:
>It will not be technology leading the way.  In many cases it will be copyright
>and legal problems, not to mention economics.  Who will pay?  Libraries will
>have value as they help people share expensive resources.  That will be
>special electronic equipment in a few cases (who wants to own a plotter to
>print a few maps?) but in most cases it will be the skilled Librarian who can
>do what others don't want to learn to do or bother to do.

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