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Not much I can argue with here. I do think his five points have a bit of the straw man to them, but not dramatically so. My comments, point by point: We need better statistics and a few more years perspective, but my guess is the trend go forward will be for less printed [...] Article, not peer review: use single example–archives for deceased author–to demonstrate various limitations facing archives today. As I slave away on a paper on digital preservation, I heard a snatch of Eine kleine Nachtmusik from the TV downstairs. I checked my music library but surprisingly I don’t own a copy. So I googled it, looking for a copy to listen to, and without much thought queued this up. So, I [...] One more Budd quote: “[Those in the profession who see tradition and technology as mutually at war with one another] tacitly accept the law of the excluded middle, wherein only two possibilities are deemed legitimate for consideration. For them the choices are either the status quo or a radical technology-based difference. In many instances [...] I’m using a recent paper by John M. Budd [PDF] in a paper but this part, which struck me as notable, isn’t relevant to my topic, so I’m posting it here instead: When the roles of colleges’ and universities’ libraries are discussed, one word tends to recur—transition. There has scarcely been a time since [...] |
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