Merging Perspectives

Traditional Libraries Stress:

• Service

• Selection, Organization, Structure for Access

• Centralization, Standards

• Physical objects

• Standard genres

Current Technologies Stress:

• Flexibility, Openness

• Rapid Evolution

• Decentralization (geographic, administrative)

• Digital objects

• Old & New genres

Digital Library

Design Space

• Library automation

• Digital access

• Structure

• Services

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