From: "[iso-8859-1] Saiful Amin" <saifulamin@yahoo.com>Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 19:50:25 +0100 (BST) What is a library anymore, anyway? by Michael A. Keller, Victoria A. Reich, and Andrew C. Herkovic Libraries in the future will undertake local control, especially for long-term preservation and accessibility of digital as well as analog collections. Failure to embrace that role would cause libraries and librarians rapidly to lose relevance and value as Internet and other digital resources develop. Local control of collections is critical both to assure permanence and to provide a key degree of selectivity, which ^ contrary to the irrational exuberance of making everything available to everybody ^ is vital to providing service to communities of readers. Librarians need new tools, such as the LOCKSS system, to enable both persistence and selection of electronic information. Read this interesting article at: http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue8_5/keller/ Regards, Learning Resource Centre Indian School of Business Gachibowli Hyderabad - 500 019 Ph. +91-40-2318-7963/7999 http://purl.org/net/saiful