I preface it with my wailing response to the poster of the note. As a rare books librarian, this idolatry of the so-called future of electronic information strikes me as completely sophmoric.
Computers are tools, excellent tools to be sure, but only tools.
No, I am not a Luddite and I wish to know why it is whenever a cautionary warning is raised about lemmings over the cliff , it is often assumed that I write with a quill pen under candlelight. Yes, I am grumpy today. Grump, grump, grump. Stanford University Libraries News Notes. One of the nation's top economic theorists, Hal R. Varian, has been named to head the new School of Information Management and Systems at the University of California at Berkeley.