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I KNEW THAT CHANGES were in the offing for libraries several years ago when I saw a little boy climb up on a stool in front of a computer terminal through which our online catalog could be accessed and, with great confidence, enter something on the keyboard. This was obviously quite natural for him; it wasn’t yet for some of our older clients.
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Freed, J.A. (2000). The Future of Libraries. In: Hecker, S.S., Rota, GC. (eds) Essays on the Future. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-0777-1_6
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