[NEDBIB-L] Ozymandias

Beste collega's,

Voor de blog Scholarly Kitchen schreef Rick Anderson afgelopen week deze bijdrage: http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2015/01/07/my-name-is-ozymandias-king-of-kings/ ("My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings").

Citaat:
"And here, of course, is a cautionary lesson for research libraries: for at least a century, the library was the Ozymandias that bestrode the world of information-seeking; in 1950 (or 1990, for that matter), despite the warnings of fevered futurists, it was hard to take seriously the idea of a world in which most people would bypass the library, consistently and systematically, in their search for information. Then everything changed, very suddenly and very radically, and it is now difficult to take seriously the idea of most people beginning their research process within the walls (either physical or virtual) of a library. Most-virtually all, I suspect-information searching begins with the open Web, as of course it should in order to be effective. For people regularly in search of information, this represents an enormous advance in quality of life. For research libraries, this represents a crisis. Maybe a relatively slow-moving one (I wrote with some alarm about it<http://content.lib.utah.edu/utils/getfile/collection/uspace/id/1467/filename/3958.pdf> back in 2011, and many others did so before me), but a decisive, fundamental, and systemic one."

Hoewel ik Andersons pessimisme niet deel (en het bijv helemaal eens ben met de eerste reactie onder zijn artikel), is zijn bijdrage mooie stof tot nadenken.

Met vriendelijke groet,

Jos Damen
Afrika-Studiecentrum, Leiden
http://www.connecting-africa.net
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