[349] in Public-Access_Computer_Systems_Forum
Re: Child of Computerspeak
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lisa deGruyter)
Wed May 27 17:35:48 1992
Date: Wed, 27 May 1992 16:24:23 CDT
Reply-To: Lisa deGruyter <ldeg@tenet.edu>
From: Lisa deGruyter <ldeg@tenet.edu>
To: Multiple recipients of list PACS-L <PACS-L%UHUPVM1.BITNET@RICEVM1.RICE.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <199205261632.AA02646@formby.tenet.edu>
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It's the old preservation versus use question. Libraries are *not* archives
archives are archives. Libraries are collections of information
materials organized for use. We must, of course, preserve the information
so that it can be used, but to preserve books-as-objects is a museum or
archive function, not a library function. Providing information in
whatever published form it is available, such as electronically, is.
