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MS: "Professionally, the Internet has become my major research tool, largely but not entirely replacing the traditional library and even replacing person-to-person research. Now, instead of phoning people or interviewing them face to face, I do it via e-mail. Because of speed, it has also enabled me to collaborate with people at a distance, particularly on screenplays.
As processors grow speedier, storage larger, applications multi-featured, broadband access all-pervasive, and the Internet goes wireless individuals are increasingly able to emulate much larger scale organizations successfully.
As the Internet becomes our new town square, a computer in every home: a teacher of all subjects, a connection to all cultures. This will no longer be a dream, but a necessity. And over the next decade, that must be our goal.
The Internet is also a gigantic encyclopedia, easily available for consultation by the libraries' staff and readers. Many newspapers and magazines' latest issues are available on-line, as well as "dossiers" on current events and archives equipped with a search engine to find information from previous issues.
The first step of the program the pictures and the texts of French 19th century is now available on the Web. Many organizations have a digital library organized around a subject. Are there only English texts on the Web? Not any longer what was true at the beginning of the Internet, when it was a network created in the US before becoming worldwide, is not true any more.
Located on the site of the University of Geneva, Switzerland, Athena is a digital library of documents in several languages about philosophy, science, classics, literature, history, economics, etc. It also focuses on putting French texts at the disposal of the Internet community. The Helvetia section gathers documents about Switzerland. The site offers links to other digital libraries.
Michael himself keyed in the first hundred books. When the internet became popular, in the mid-1990s, the project got a boost and an international dimension. Michael still typed and scanned in books, but now coordinated the work of dozens and then hundreds of volunteers in many countries. 30 years after its birth, Project Gutenberg is running at full capacity.
In the year 2000, the number of Internet users will be over 300 million. Does the Internet compete directly with television and reading? In Quebec, where 30.7% of the population is connected, a poll taken in March 1998 for the cybermagazine Branchez-vous! showed that 28.8% of connected Quebeckers were watching television less than before. Only 12.1% were reading less.
Great rewards will come to those who can live together, learn together, work together, forge new ties that bind together. As this new era approaches we can already see its broad outlines. Ten years ago, the Internet was the mystical province of physicists; today, it is a commonplace encyclopedia for millions of schoolchildren. Scientists now are decoding the blueprint of human life.
The librarian's job has significantly changed with computers, and continues to change with the Internet. Computers made the catalogs much easier to handle. In place of all these paper cards to be classified into wood or metal drawers, the computer could sort out the bibliographic records itself. The loan of documents and the processing of orders became computerized too.
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