Becoming Digital

摘要

SHE BEGAN HER CAREER IN THE PAPER AGE, BEFORE GOOGLE'S FOUNDERS WERE BORN. THEN SHE GOT A JOB AS A DIGITAL LIBRARIAN. Pam Qsborne was born, trained, and raised professionally as an analog librarian. When she received her MLS in 1972, index-card catalogues reigned, printed books and journals were the only trufe source of information and reference, Bill Gates was writing BASIC for TRW, there were no e's or i's before words like 'mail' and 'pod,1 and Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page were yet to be born.