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library users like audiovisuals

Sarah Ann Long, a former president of the American Library Association and currently director of NSLS, a library consortium in the northern suburban region of Illinois, recently noted public library users’ interest in audiovisual materials: In 2001, the NSLS conducted an informal survey of member public libraries and found that in a few libraries, loans … Continue reading library users like audiovisuals

organizational diversity in information infrastructure

Providing network infrastructure need not be limited to a choice between the model of public roads and the model of selling soap. The provision of public roads depends on market transactions for a variety of goods (construction worker services, trucks, asphalt, etc). Selling soap depends on a variety of public services (money supply provision, law … Continue reading organizational diversity in information infrastructure