What can we learn from the experience of libraries in dealing with technological change? How can this help us to rethink communications futures?
This paper rehearses various histories of libraries. White tracing the shift from an emphasis on collection to an emphasis on dispersal, it explores the ways in which libraries operate as governmental technology. The experience of libraries in dealing with technological change has been continually to create another order from a new chaos. This is what we borrow.
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