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Patricia Battin
 

future of our book collections may well be threatened, the enemy
is not the computer.

If we seem to be overly concerned with issues of management,
automation, preservation of materials published within the last
 

A library employee using a computer terminal to gain direct access to cat¬
aloguing information stored in the computer at the Library of Congress.

century on acidic paper, and cooperative relationships for the de¬
velopment of national bibliographic networks and collection
capacities, it is to assure, rather than to obscure, the central signi¬
ficance of the book and the scholar to the research library. Too
often, concern for management and computers is seen by biblio¬
philes as hostile to a concern for books and scholarship, when in
fact, if properly balanced and coordinated, each can truly serve
the other.

A cursory review of the major activities of the University Li¬
braries during the past decade is an eloquent statement of the