Summary
Perhaps most important of all, the large research libraries that set the standard for the highest-quality information need to make sure that they can be discovered and appreciated by anyone, anywhere - whether on a subway, in a movie theater lobby, or an airplane stuck on the tarmac at Chicago's O'Hare International Airport on a cold winter's day. The key objective to remember is that as mobile computing becomes a primary pipeline for knowledge resources, the greater library community - including vendors, libraries, and the profession itself - will benefit from working together. Yet that's not how I feel personally. [...] I attribute that lack of alarm on my part to an understanding of two things: the history of the web's explosive growth and society's many reactions to it and that tried-and-true skill that librarians possess in abundance, pattern recognition.
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Thin Client, Meet the Mobile Future
In understanding how current technologies are impacting digital library development and services, it can be very useful to stay familiar with the literature of the whole of the internet era, not just the most recent 5 years' worth. It's tempting, even for doctoral students in classic disciplines such as psychology, to overlook what was "new and good" in the not-so-recent past; indeed, this is a major concern for faculty who teach doctoral students. For us, with our intense focus on highquality ser...
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