Two Steps Forward, One Step Back

Date

1992

Journal Title

Journal ISSN

Volume Title

Publisher

The Public-Access Computer Systems Review

Abstract

Provides several examples of drawbacks encountered when technological improvements are applied to the public access of library databases. Suggests that technological advances all carry some trade-off and that they should be employed cautiously.

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Keywords

Academic Libraries, Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Evaluation, Higher Education, Improvement, Information Retrieval, Information Sources, Academic libraries, Access to Information, Bibliographic Databases, Evaluations, Higher education, Improvement, Information Retrieval, Information Sources

Citation

Crawford, Walt. "Two Steps Forward, One Step Back." The PublicAccess Computer Systems Review 3, no. 5 (1992): 31-32.