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From Gutenberg to GoogleFrom Gutenberg to GoogleThe case of the Bodleian Library, The case of the Bodleian Library,
OxfordOxford
Presentation to the Union League of Presentation to the Union League of PhiladelphiaPhiladelphia
Reg Carr, Bodley’s LibrarianReg Carr, Bodley’s Librarian
18 October 200518 October 2005
““The book is dead!”The book is dead!”
“Move over Gutenberg!”“Move over Gutenberg!”
Johann GutenbergJohann GutenbergRIPRIP
“ “The book is dead!” The book is dead!”
The printed book The printed book RIP RIP
Or is it?Or is it?
The principle of ‘co-The principle of ‘co-existence’ of existence’ of
communications media communications media typestypes
(The notion of ‘overlap’)(The notion of ‘overlap’)
‘‘Co-existence’ still at workCo-existence’ still at work
• ‘‘Fitness for purpose’…Fitness for purpose’…
• E-mails, text messages E-mails, text messages and and lettersletters
• Cell phones, laptops Cell phones, laptops and and pens and pens and pencilspencils
• Keyboard skills Keyboard skills and and handwritinghandwriting
• Overlapping communications mediaOverlapping communications media
““The hybrid library”The hybrid library”
““The dominant user view of a library is of a The dominant user view of a library is of a physical space. But libraries are services physical space. But libraries are services which provide organised access to the which provide organised access to the intellectual record, wherever it resides, intellectual record, wherever it resides, whether in physical places or in scattered whether in physical places or in scattered digital information spaces. The ‘hybrid’ digital information spaces. The ‘hybrid’ library of the future will be a managed library of the future will be a managed combination of physical and virtual combination of physical and virtual collections and information resources” collections and information resources”
The application of The application of computers in librariescomputers in libraries
From ‘mechanisation’From ‘mechanisation’toto
‘automation’‘automation’toto
‘information, knowledge and ‘information, knowledge and
digital asset management’digital asset management’
The ‘discontinuities’ of The ‘discontinuities’ of communications in the age of the communications in the age of the
Internet: Internet: big changes under waybig changes under way
• Broader than just librariesBroader than just libraries
• The nature of publishingThe nature of publishing
• The cycle of authoring, The cycle of authoring, publication publication
and readingand reading
• Economic issuesEconomic issues
• Legal issuesLegal issues
• Social issuesSocial issues
““Whither (wither?) Whither (wither?) Gutenberg?”Gutenberg?”
andand
“Whither (wither?) “Whither (wither?) libraries?”libraries?”
The digital information The digital information revolution:revolution:
a phenomenal expansiona phenomenal expansion
• The InternetThe Internet
• The World Wide WebThe World Wide Web
• Feynman’s digital Feynman’s digital nanocube?nanocube?
Images of Magna Carta and Images of Magna Carta and the Anglo-Saxon Chroniclethe Anglo-Saxon Chronicle