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1/ w PNLA QUARTERLY 101 An automated Library of the Future, designed by the American Library Association in cooperation with leading firms in the electronics field and employing the latest techniques in storage and retrieval of information, will be on display at the Seattle World's Fair, April 21-Oct. 21, 1962. "Library 21, as it will be called, will show how technological change will Introduce a new dimension in library programs. We fully expect that printed materials will remain basic to all education and civilized thought In the next century. Library 21's objective is to depict how we can enrich our personal lives through books and community services, but electronics and information technology will have great impact on the methods we use for storing, retrieving, and communicating knowledge in the libraries of tomorrow/' said David H. Clift, executive director of the ALA, in announcing the Library 21 project. Industrial participants in the project include: Remington Rand, UNIVAC, RCA, IBM, National Cash Register Co., Magnavox, Thompson Ramo Woolridge, Encyclopaedia Brit- annica, Xerox, Inc.- University Microfilms, and others. Featuring personalized reading lists tailored to individual interest, age, and educational level, the electronic machines are currently being packed with information by librarians so that questions on nearly every conceivable sub ject will receive prompt, accurate response. Visitors will be able to query the great minds of the western world through the machines on a variety of subjects, and teaching machines, and closed circuit television also will play their part in the library of the future. Library 21 is a prototype of the six or seven core libraries designed to service vast areas of the nation in the next century. These central libraries will be tied together in a communications network and will provide service to virtually all libraries in their regions so that every important document, book, pamphlet, and other piece of information will be available to every library user no matter where he might reside, "In drawing up the program for 'Library 21', the ALA hopes to project Fair visitors into this 21st century library environment by demonstrating the dynamic role which the library of tomorrow will play in the field of information communication/' said Clift. A children's world, adult reading area, and learning resources center equipped with programmed learning devices and the newer educational media also will be included in ALA's 9,000 square foot exhibit area in the Coliseum, an eleven story high building with no interior columns. Visitors to Library 21 will walk up ramps or be carried by a "cloudalator'1,
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Transcript | 1/ w PNLA QUARTERLY 101 An automated Library of the Future, designed by the American Library Association in cooperation with leading firms in the electronics field and employing the latest techniques in storage and retrieval of information, will be on display at the Seattle World's Fair, April 21-Oct. 21, 1962. "Library 21, as it will be called, will show how technological change will Introduce a new dimension in library programs. We fully expect that printed materials will remain basic to all education and civilized thought In the next century. Library 21's objective is to depict how we can enrich our personal lives through books and community services, but electronics and information technology will have great impact on the methods we use for storing, retrieving, and communicating knowledge in the libraries of tomorrow/' said David H. Clift, executive director of the ALA, in announcing the Library 21 project. Industrial participants in the project include: Remington Rand, UNIVAC, RCA, IBM, National Cash Register Co., Magnavox, Thompson Ramo Woolridge, Encyclopaedia Brit- annica, Xerox, Inc.- University Microfilms, and others. Featuring personalized reading lists tailored to individual interest, age, and educational level, the electronic machines are currently being packed with information by librarians so that questions on nearly every conceivable sub ject will receive prompt, accurate response. Visitors will be able to query the great minds of the western world through the machines on a variety of subjects, and teaching machines, and closed circuit television also will play their part in the library of the future. Library 21 is a prototype of the six or seven core libraries designed to service vast areas of the nation in the next century. These central libraries will be tied together in a communications network and will provide service to virtually all libraries in their regions so that every important document, book, pamphlet, and other piece of information will be available to every library user no matter where he might reside, "In drawing up the program for 'Library 21', the ALA hopes to project Fair visitors into this 21st century library environment by demonstrating the dynamic role which the library of tomorrow will play in the field of information communication/' said Clift. A children's world, adult reading area, and learning resources center equipped with programmed learning devices and the newer educational media also will be included in ALA's 9,000 square foot exhibit area in the Coliseum, an eleven story high building with no interior columns. Visitors to Library 21 will walk up ramps or be carried by a "cloudalator'1, |
Date created | 2012-04-02 |