Thank God for computer technology and libraries. Changes in the way libraries collect and disseminate information and books are happening at record paces. Rick Anderson in his article "Away from the 'icebergs'" notes that "it no longer makes sense to collect information products as if they were hard to get. They aren't. In fact, it may no longer make sense to 'collect' in the traditional sense at all." The statement that information products are not hard to get is true, but many computer illiterate and computer avoiders want to be able to browse an eclectic collection. (I meet many patrons like this on a weekly basis). What do we do for them if we reduce the collection? (For my family and I, visits to the library are social highly visual events and yet we have four computers in my home and a network of hi speed internet).
Sometimes change is hard.
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