OCLC to Library Community: Time To Think Differently

摘要

In OCLC's last "environmental scan," conducted in 2000, Google was not mentioned. In Pattern Recognition: The 2003 OCLC Environmental Scan, Google, Amazon, and other self-service, web-based consumer sites are major players shaping the "infosphere" in which libraries function. Ranganathan's old rule "For every reader, his or her book" has been reinterpreted as "for every reader, huge amounts of free-floating content, anywhere, anytime." The intersection of the orderly world of libraries and the "free-associating, unrestricted, and disorderly" web is dubbed "the twilight zone." To discern implications for libraries, OCLC interviewed 100 librarians, vendors, archivists, and others.