BOOKS AND LIBRARIES IN THE SCIENTIFIC AGE

Abstract

The author proves to his own satisfaction that this is indeed a scientific age, not for its cultural impact but its nuisance value. He then contrasts the popular image of scientists with drab reality, enlivened only by the scientists' love-hate relationship with his 'literature', whether it be read, written or kept in piles, even the latter function being undelegatable. A cursory summary of scientists' of the literature in general and libraries in particular is followed by pronouncing anathema on those who would substitute a toilet roll of printout for books as we know them and an unabashed paean of praise for books, libraries and librarians.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jan 09, 1967
Accession Number
AD0645217

Entities

People

  • Harold Wooster

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Biomedical
  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Analog Computers
  • Biomedical Engineering
  • Books
  • Chemistry
  • Computers
  • Engineering
  • Information Processing
  • Information Retrieval
  • Information Science
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Scientific Literature
  • Scientific Research
  • Standards
  • United States

Readers

  • Educational Psychology
  • Library and Information Science/ Studies, Southeast Asia Studies, Bibliography of Vietnam and Lao Studies.
  • Military History of the United States in the 20th Century.