The disembodied librarian in the digital age, part II

College and Research Libraries

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 99-113

  Martell, Charles ^b   Moran, Barbara ^a   Saunders, Laverna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b NONE

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DOI: 10.5860/crl.61.2.99     Document Type: Article

References (41)

1. Jay David Bolter, Writing Space: The Computer, Hypertext, and the History of Writing (Hillsdale, N.J.: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1991), ix.
2. George P. Landow, Hypertext: The Convergence of Contemporary Critical Theory and Technology (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Pr., 1992), 2-3.
3. Sherry Turkle, Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of Internet (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1995), 26.
4. Scott Bukatman, Terminal Identity: The Virtual Subject in Postmodern Science Fiction (Durham: Duke Univ. Pr., 1993), 64.
5. Ibid., 30.
6. Michael Dertouzos, What Will Be: How the New World of Information Will Change Our Lives (San Francisco: HarperCollins, 1998), 70.
7. Jeremy Rifkin, "Patent Pending," Mother Jones 23, no. 3 (May-June 1998): 50.
8. Dertouzos, What Will Be, 142-48.
9. Graham T. Molitor, "The Next 1,000 Years: The 'Big Five' Engines of Economic Growth," Futurist 33, no. 10 (Dec. 1999): 13-14.
10. Ibid., 14.
11. Dertouzos, What Will Be, 58-64.
12. William E. Holal, Michael D. Kull, and Ann Leffmann, "Emerging Technologies: What's Ahead for 2001-2030," Futurist 31, no. 5 (Nov.-Dec. 1997): 23.
13. Landow, Hypertext, 43.
14. Michael Heim, The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality (New York: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1993), 30; Turkle, Life on the Screen, 52.
15. Michael Heim, The Metaphysics of Virtual Reality (New York: Oxford Univ. Pr., 1993), 30; Turkle, Life on the Screen, 52.
16. Silvio Gaggi, From Text to Hypertext: Decentering the Subject in Fiction, Film, the Visual Arts, and Electronic Media (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Pr., 1997), 13.
17. See also the special issue of Modern Fiction Studies 43, no. 3 (fall 1997) on the subject of "Technocriticism and Hypernarrative."
18. William Crossmam, "The Coming Age of Talking Computers," Futurist 33, no. 10 (Dec. 1999): 42.
19. William Crossman, "'William Crossman Responds' to Dan Johnson's 'Literacy Will Survive: An Alternative Scenario,'" Futurist 33, no. 10 (Dec. 1999): 47.
20. Jean Baudrillard, In the Shadow of the Silent Majorities, trans. Paul Foss, Paul Payton, and John Johnston, Foreign Agents Series, ed. Jim Fleming and Sylvere Lotringer (New York: Semiotext[e], 1983), 101.
21. Heim, Metaphysics of Virtual Reality, 10.
22. Charles Radding, A World Made by Men: Cognition and Society, 400-1200 (Chapel Hill, NC: Univ. of North Carolina Press, 1985), 261.
23. Excerpt from the poem "Ballad for the Future" by Ivan Radoev, in Clay and Star: Contemporary Bulgarian Poets, trans. and ed. Lisa Sapinkopf and Georgi Belev (Minneapolis, Minn.: Milkweed, 1992), 58.
24. th Anniversary of 'As We May Think,'" Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Oct. 12, 1995.
25. This theme is developed by Francis Miksa and Philip Doty, "Intellectual Realities and the Digital Library," in Proceedings of Digital Libraries '94: The First Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University, 1994). Available online at: http://csdl.tamu.edu/DL94/paper/miksa.html; Francis Miksa, "The Cultural Legacy of the 'Modern Library' for the Future," address to the annual meeting of the Association for Library and Information Science Education, San Antonio, Tex., Jan. 17, 1996.
26. This theme is developed by Francis Miksa and Philip Doty, "Intellectual Realities and the Digital Library," in Proceedings of Digital Libraries '94: The First Annual Conference on the Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (College Station, Tex.: Texas A&M University, 1994). Available online at: http://csdl.tamu.edu/DL94/paper/miksa.html; Francis Miksa, "The Cultural Legacy of the 'Modern Library' for the Future," address to the annual meeting of the Association for Library and Information Science Education, San Antonio, Tex., Jan. 17, 1996.
27. Available online at: "The Challenge of a New Environment," http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~miksa/nine.html; Peter Lyman, "What Is a Digital Library? Technology, Intellectual Property, and the Public Interest," Daedalus 125, no. 4 (fall 1996): 2, 11.
28. Available online at: "The Challenge of a New Environment," http://www.gslis.utexas.edu/~miksa/nine.html; Peter Lyman, "What Is a Digital Library? Technology, Intellectual Property, and the Public Interest," Daedalus 125, no. 4 (fall 1996): 2, 11.
29. Peter Neurnberg et al., "Digital Libraries: Issues and Architectures." Available online at: http://csdl.tamu.edu/DL95/papers/nuernberg/nuernberg.html.
30. See also special issue on "Digital Libraries: Global Scope, Unlimited Access," Communications of the ACM 41, no. 4 (Apr. 1998): 49-98.
31. Gerry McKiernan, "Agent-based Cooperative Collection Development." Available from gerrymck@iastate.edu.
32. Jack Kornfield, A Path with Heart (New York: Bantam Bks., 1993), 50.
33. th ed. (London: Arnold, 1997), 242. Interactive and 3-D attributes are sometimes assumed. Some of the media I have included under the heading of virtual reality (i.e., television, book, and photograph) would be excluded if these attributes were added.
34. Archie Dick, "Library and Information Science as a Social Science: Neutral and Normative Conceptions," Library Quarterly 65, no. 2 (Apr. 1995): 217-18.
35. "Buildings, Books, and Bytes: Libraries and Communities in the Digital Age," Library Trends 46, no. 1 (summer 1997): 205. This is the full report originally published by the Benton Foundation and funded by the W. K. Kellogg Foundation.
36. Ibid., 216.
37. Tom McArthur, Worlds of Reference: Lexicography, Learning, and Language from the Clay Tablet to the Computer (New York: Cambridge Univ. Pr., 1986), 7.
38. Communications of the ACM, 37, no. 7 (July 1994) contains several articles on intelligent agents.
39. Pattie Maes's "Agents that Reduce Workload and Information Overload" (31-40, 146) describes some practical applications currently in use.
40. Wislawa Szymborska, "Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition," in View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems, trans. Stanislaw Baranczak (New York: Harcourt Brace & Company, 1995), 4.
41. "It is important that librarians confront the fact that our profession could become dangerously marginal in academic life if we are not more responsive to actual user needs and preferences." Virginia Massey-Burzio, "From the Other Side of the Reference Desk: A Focus Group Study," Journal of Academic Librarianship 24, no. 3 (May 1998): 155.