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What is Distinctive about the Library of Congress In Both its Collections and its Means of Access to Them And The Reasons LC Needs to Maintain Classified Shelving of Books Onsite, And A Way to Deal Effectively with the Problem of "Books on the Fl
Mann, Thomas http://www.sources.com/SSR/Docs2/Mann-WhatisDistinctiveAboutLC-2009.pdf
Date Written: 06/11/2009 Year Published: 2009 Pages: 30pp Resource Type: Article
The Library cannot solve its space problems by adoption of a "digital strategy" without seriously damaging our larger mission to promote scholarship of unusual scope and depth. If the Librarys own access to its own general book collection were to be dumbed down to only the levels of subject access provided by Google, Amazon, or Internet search mechanisms, we would effectively be endorsing, and institutionalizing, the level of ignorance exemplified by the Six Blind Men of India.
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