Bibliobabble?: The surge towards a print→less e‐library recasts academic librarians as “rare book engineers”
Bibliobabble?: The surge towards a print→less e‐library recasts academic librarians as “rare book engineers”
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Bibliobabble？：无纸质电子图书馆的浪潮将学术图书馆员重塑为“稀有图书工程师”
DOI：
10.1108/01435121111102593
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发表时间：
2011
影响因子：
1.3
通讯作者：
C. Storey
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作者：
C. Storey
目的
- 本文的目的是解决的危险，一个受过良好训练的专业群体-学术图书馆员-在应对的挑战，剥离他们的图书馆的大量印刷材料。
设计/方法/方式
- 该方法采取的形式是对图书馆管理与电子革命的当前状态的总体看法，即印刷材料的相应保存。
结果
- 传统上，任何图书馆的大部分库存，很少使用的印刷书籍和期刊似乎已经成为这个网络旋转，电子世界的负担。学术图书馆员正在成为积极的参与者，急于实现一个“印刷→少”的天堂。历史上第一次，在任何战争或和平时期，未来20年可能会见证一场大规模的故意全球传播，甚至摧毁大学，学院和研究图书馆中的大部分印刷文字。这个相当于华氏451度的事件将被精心策划，而不是由无情的暴君和反复无常的审查员骑在图书馆员的身上重写历史记录，而是由图书馆员自己。这不仅仅是"bibliobabble"--在这里被定义为爱书者对电子书和数字内容浪潮的反动胡言乱语。鉴于图书馆员天生的专业能力，有组织的彻底性，一系列小的地方项目，在更广泛的世界中基本上没有被注意到，将非常迅速地执行，导致全球性的和可能不协调的除草。在没有通常的技巧或足够的时间或资源的情况下，这种从大学和学院的保护墙中持续传播或破坏印刷材料的行为将重新将“普通”作品归类为全球“相对”甚至“绝对”稀有的作品。学术图书馆员将为自己创造一个新的职业--"善本工程师"--通过大规模减少世界图书馆的藏书数量，依靠私人藏书家（如果他们在2060年仍然存在的话）来收购数百万本被丢弃的书籍，并为子孙后代保存它们。
实际影响
- 图书馆员需要仔细考虑如何以及在何处处理和发送较少使用的印刷材料。
独创性/价值
- 作者结合多年从事图书馆工作的实践，提出了自己的一些看法。
Purpose
– The purpose of this paper is to address the dangers for a highly trained group of professionals – academic librarians – in responding to the challenge of divesting their libraries of a very large amount of printed material.
Design/methodology/approach
– The approach takes the form of a general view of the current state‐of‐play in library management vis‐a‐vis the e‐revolution, in terms of the corresponding preservation of printed materials.
Findings
– Traditionally, the majority stock of any library, rarely used printed books and journals seem to have become a liability and a burden in this web‐spun, e‐raddled world. Academic librarians are becoming active participants in the rush to achieve a “print→less” heaven. For the first time in history on such a scale and in any period of war or peace, the next 20 years could witness a huge and deliberate global dispersal and even destruction of a substantial portion of the printed word in university, college and research libraries. This Fahrenheit 451‐equivalent event would be carefully planned not by ruthless despots and capricious censors riding roughshod over the bodies of librarians to re‐write historical records, but by … the librarians themselves. This is not just “bibliobabble” – defined here as the reactionary ravings of the bibliophile against a tidal wave of e‐books and digital content. Given librarians' innate professional ability for organized thoroughness, a series of small local projects, largely unremarked in the wider world, would be very speedily executed, leading to global and possibly uncoordinated weeding. This sustained dispersal or destruction of printed material from the protective walls of universities and colleges, without the usual finesse or adequate time or resources, will re‐classify “ordinary” works into titles of “relative” or even “absolute” rarity worldwide. Academic librarians will have created a new profession for themselves – “rare book engineers” – by massively reducing the number of copies held in the world's libraries and relying on private book collectors (if they still exist in 2060) to acquire any of the millions of discarded titles and preserve them for posterity.
Practical implications
– Librarians need to consider carefully how and where lesser‐used printed materials will be disposed of and sent.
Originality/value
– Using practical examples from many years of experience in librarianship, the author states some strong personal opinions on this matter.