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Volume 55, Number 10 · June 12, 2008
The Library in the New Age
By Robert Darnton
"Information is exploding so furiously around us and information technology is changing at such bewildering speed that we face a fundamental problem: How to orient ourselves in the new landscape? What, for example, will become of research libraries in the face of technological marvels such as Google?
"How to make sense of it all?" Read the answer