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| What is Distinctive about the Library of Congress In Both its Collections and its Means of Access to ThemAnd 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, Thomashttp://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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