Waiting for the barbarians : seeking solutions or awaiting answers?

Law, Derek; (2010) Waiting for the barbarians : seeking solutions or awaiting answers? In: Envisioning Future Academic Library Services. Facet, London. ISBN 1856046915

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Abstract

Cavafy's (1961) famous poem describes the paralysis induced when waiting for an event that never happens, finding distraction in other things while expecting imminent cataclysm. Libraries have perhaps been guilty of this in recent years, joining the chorus bemoaning the imminent arrival of the digital barbarians and undertaking a whole series of avoidance tactics which make libraries ever more efficient but ever less relevant. Like Cavafy's senators, libraries have prepared themselves, decked themselves in finery but have waited for the future to come to them rather than gone out to engage with it.

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  Item type:	Book Section
  ID code:	20106
  Dates:	Date Event April 2010 Published
  Subjects:	Bibliography. Library Science. Information Resources > Library Science. Information Science
  Department:	Professional Services > Information Services
  Depositing user:	Professor Derek Law
  Date deposited:	20 May 2010 09:54
  Last modified:	11 Nov 2024 14:41
  URI:	https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/20106