[348] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Re: Child of Computerspeak
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (HASELTIN%ARIZVMS.BITNET@RICEVM1.RI)
Wed May 27 17:34:50 1992
Date: Wed, 27 May 1992 16:24:06 CDT
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From: HASELTIN%ARIZVMS.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU
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Anders Thulin says:
>Libraries should first and foremost preserve information in original
>form for as long as possible. That is, libraries are archives.
The only reason for archives is so the material can be USED, right?
The two functions of the library are not separate or separable, but
two "sides of the same coin". They each contain within themselves the
existence of the other.
Michael Haseltine
haseltin@arizvms
haseltin@ccit.arizona.edu
