Harvard Magazine: Gutenberg 2.0 Harvard's libraries deal with disruptive change.

Gutenberg 2.0 Harvard’s libraries deal with disruptive change, by Jonathan Shaw, Harvard Magazine, May-June 2010

  • “Who has the most scientific knowledge of large-scale organization, collection, and access to information? Librarians,” says [Peter Bol, Carswell professor of East Asian languages and civilizations]. A librarian can take a book, put it somewhere, and then guarantee to find it again. “If you’ve got 16 million items,” he points out, “that’s a very big guarantee. We ought to be leveraging that expertise to deal with this new digital environment. That’s a vision of librarians as specialists in organizing and accessing and preserving information in multiple media forms, rather than as curators of collections of books, maps, or posters.”
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