[PADG:2214] RE: PADG Meeting Announcement

[Gary Frost <gary-frost@xxxxxxxxx>]

Digital discovery, research, and connectivity augment the relationships of 
books. These resources are similar to traditional human resources that 
construct meaning and relations between print materials. The supersession 
senario in which digital resources supplant print resources has not 
occurred. The explanation for the overlaps...including "inside the book" 
engines is that the digital resources integrate and therefore can mimic all 
the reading modes. But their superiority, beyond the technological 
achievement of simultaneously screening verbal, written and print modes 
into a readable matrix, is overrated. For one thing the richness of 
expression of the oral/verbal mode is not approached, the conceptual 
exercise of the written mode is not fully required and the permanence and 
systematic accumulation of the print mode is not achieved. The digital 
research is still an accessory of the parent reading modes.

...er, that's my view anyway.

   At 12:37 PM 1/7/2004 -0500, Walter Cybulski wrote:
> I would ask people to consider what happens if traditional modes of research
> and scholarship become disconnected entirely from print collections (if they
> haven't already).

Gary Frost, Conservator
University of Iowa Libraries
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Iowa City   IA   52242-1420
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