I work on a moderately large uni campus and, trust me,
the library is not going anywhere anytime soon. It's a large
building full of a few computers and public computer labs and,
here it comes, millions of books. The kind that are printed on
paper with ink.
They are, in fact, always running out of space so will
be soon building a high-tech storage facility to store even more
books.
The main library will be full of the books that students
are likely to need most often and the annex will have older
volumes that don't circulate as frequently.
I recently learned some trivia about library building
technology.
Libraries are harder to build than parking garages
because the collective weight of all the books is more than even
the collective weight of all the vehicles that one would find
in a parking garage.
They have to sink pilons all the way down to bedrock to
keep the library building from sinking slowly in to the ground.
OCR may not be as necessary now as it used to be, but it
is still the only reasonable solution in a lot of situations. As
with many technological things, it is cheaper and better than
ever. If I lived alone, I would have the best OCR system I could
reasonably find.
Martin
Gordon Smith writes:
> Hello Sarah
>
> Just because you don't use paper at uni, that doesn't mean it's obsolete
> and, to be blunt, I feel that anybody pretending they don't need to look
> at this kind of technology is burying their proverbial heads in the
> proverbial sand. What, for instance, happens if you live alone and if
> you then start receiving private mail on paper? Guess what! You need to
> trust somebody else to read it to you because you have no way of doing so.
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