From National Libraries to the Global Village Library: Networks Offer New Opportunities for Traditional Libraries

Dainton, Lord. "Preface to K. W. Humphreys. A National Library in Theory and in Practice." The Panizzi Lectures 1987. London: The British Library, 1988: VII.

For example Sylvestre, Guy. "Guidelines for National Libraries." 1987, typescript; National Libraries. Line, M.B. and J. cds. London, 1979.

Kurzweil, Raymond. "The Virtual Library." Library Journal, March 15, 1993: 55.

Oettinger, Anthony , et al. High and Low Politics: Information Resources for the 80s, Cambridge, 1977.

The Library of Congress in the Year 2000: A Vision, Management and Planning Committee, The Library of Congress, Washington, June 29, 1988: VIII.

Line, Maurice. "Do We Need National Libraries, and If So What Sort?" Alexandria, 2 (2):33 ( 1990).

Definition adopted by the 16th General Conference of UNESCO in 1970, quoted from Guy Sylvestre, p. 1.

Gore, Al. "Infrastructure for the Global Village." Scientific American, Sept. 1991:110.

Ibid.

Switzerland and Israel.

Penniman, David W. "The Library of Tomorrow: A Universal Window Serving Independent Problem Solvers." Library HiTech, 10 (4):23-26(1992); The New Media-Communication, Research, and Technology. Ronald E. Rice, ed. Beverly Hills, 1984.

Penniman, op. cit.

Spiro, Herbert J. "Comparative Politics. AComprehensive Approach." American Political Science Review. 56:577-595 (1962).

Officially the U.S. does not even have a national library. LC is the de facto one whereas in Switzerland the library, for example, tried to change its German name to "National Library" which was rejected by the parliament. The term "national" was thought to be too centralistic.

Cf. Wuest, Ruth. "The Optical Disk Project at the Library of Congress: A Case Study in the Use of New Technology in a Library Environment." Free University of Berlin, Dissertation, 1990.

Line, Maurice and Peter Scott. "Commercial and Revenue Raising Activities in National Libraries." IFLA Journal, 15 (1):23-36 (1989).

Cf. Kurzweil, Raymond. The Age of Intelligent Machines. Boston, 1990.

Dery, Mark. "Art Goes High Tech." ARTnews , February 1993:74-83.