Imagine, for a minute, that the worst Year 2000 predictions materialize, and on January 1 we arrive at our libraries to discover that our computers don't work.
Many librarians think so.
And every librarian who contributed to this column informed me that they would prefer to have computer access come the millennium. Okay, point taken. Still, work with me, people. The thrill of the chase We automated to make life easier, but sometimes it seems that the machines have elbowed us aside. I felt a real rush when I could answer a question based on my knowledge and experience and not just how well I could perform a keyword search.