TY - BOOK AU - Billings,Harold TI - Magic and Hypersystems: Constructing the Information-Sharing Library SN - 9780838999608 AV - Z678.9 -- .B55 2002eb U1 - 021.6/5 PY - 2002/// CY - Chicago PB - ALA Editions KW - Library science -- Technological innovations KW - Library information networks KW - Library cooperation KW - Information technology KW - Collection development (Libraries) KW - Research libraries -- Automation KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Libraries and Other Networked Botanies -- Magic and Hypersystems A New Orderliness for Libraries -- Governing Library Networks The Quick and the Dead for the 1990s -- The Bionic Library -- Supping with the Devil New Library Alliances in the Information Age -- The Information Ark Selection Issues in the Preservation Process -- The Tomorrow Librarian -- Library Collections and Distance Information New Models of Collection Development for the Twenty- First Century -- Libraries, Language, and Change Defining the Information Present -- Special Collections Still Special after All These Years -- Shared Collection Building Constructing the Twenty- First- Century Relational Research Library -- Giving Up Prophecy The Future of Information Cooperation -- INDEX UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3001567 ER -