In all of nature, change is the most constant factor.
Throughout manmade civilizations, likewise, change from era
to era is continual and inevitable. How amazing it is, therefore,
to realize that the product with which librarians are
primarily concerned--the book- -has remained substantially
unchanged in form for the past two thousand years. Certainly,
since the introduction of typography five hundred years ago,
variations in the book's format have been relatively minor. I
suspect that we would be hard put to it to name any other object
in common use today of which this fact would be true.
But, we are now living in the twentieth century, a period
during which the rate of technological change has been tremendously
accelerated. No longer can we complacently assume
that the book world, which is so vital to us as librarians,
will go on for the next five centuries, or even the next twentyfive
years, without profound modifications.
Publisher
Graduate School of Library Science. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Series/Report Name or Number
Allerton Park Institute (3rd : 1956)
ISSN
0536-4606
Type of Resource
text
Language
en
Permalink
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