William F. Garrity

A colleague in the Baker-Berry Library (Bill F.) points to this article in the June 12, 2008, The New York Review of Books:

The Library in the New Age

By Robert Darnton

Information is exploding so furiously around us and information technology is changing at such bewildering speed that we face a fundamental problem: How to orient ourselves in the new landscape?  How to make sense of it all?  I have no answer to that problem, but I can suggest an approach to it: look at the history of the ways information has been communicated.

My colleague says,

Thought this might be of interest to CD Forum list members -  it's a long article, but the best part of the article begins with section 2, which focuses on the advantages & shortcomings of Google Books, preservation, and the role of research libraries.