Building Library Collections: The Horse Is Riding Us!
Unsound use of automation and digital idolatry are reducing access to research information.Technology should be the means not the end to better libraries. By understanding how digital information has been captured by multinational corporations,one must thread one s way through the labyrinth of mis-i...
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Tamkang University Press
2003-06-01
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| Series: | Jiàoyù zīliào yǔ túshūguǎn xué |
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| Online Access: | http://joemls.dils.tku.edu.tw/fulltext/40/40-4/429-437.pdf |
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| description | Unsound use of automation and digital idolatry are reducing access to research information.Technology should be the means not the end to better libraries. By understanding how digital information has been captured by multinational corporations,one must thread one s way through the labyrinth of mis-information clones and data corruption to a more wholesome collection of diverse points of view. Collection building will always be labor intensive, and therefore time-consuming,because intellectual judgments are involved. Giving away selection to vendors and publishers only furthers the degradation of research and ultimately threatens not only intellectual investigation but also national security. The way forward is backward to the hard work of selecting. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-6f2121c34f4646eaaced45f547f1f85d2023-09-02T20:46:02ZengTamkang University PressJiàoyù zīliào yǔ túshūguǎn xué1013-090X2003-06-01404429437Building Library Collections: The Horse Is Riding Us!Milton T. WolfUnsound use of automation and digital idolatry are reducing access to research information.Technology should be the means not the end to better libraries. By understanding how digital information has been captured by multinational corporations,one must thread one s way through the labyrinth of mis-information clones and data corruption to a more wholesome collection of diverse points of view. Collection building will always be labor intensive, and therefore time-consuming,because intellectual judgments are involved. Giving away selection to vendors and publishers only furthers the degradation of research and ultimately threatens not only intellectual investigation but also national security. The way forward is backward to the hard work of selecting.http://joemls.dils.tku.edu.tw/fulltext/40/40-4/429-437.pdfCollection developmentCollection managementAutomationDigital accessReader's advisorAcquisitionsIntellectual freedom |
| spellingShingle | Milton T. Wolf Building Library Collections: The Horse Is Riding Us! Jiàoyù zīliào yǔ túshūguǎn xué Collection development Collection management Automation Digital access Reader's advisor Acquisitions Intellectual freedom |
| title | Building Library Collections: The Horse Is Riding Us! |
| title_full | Building Library Collections: The Horse Is Riding Us! |
| title_fullStr | Building Library Collections: The Horse Is Riding Us! |
| title_full_unstemmed | Building Library Collections: The Horse Is Riding Us! |
| title_short | Building Library Collections: The Horse Is Riding Us! |
| title_sort | building library collections the horse is riding us |
| topic | Collection development Collection management Automation Digital access Reader's advisor Acquisitions Intellectual freedom |
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