TY  - JOUR
AB  - Purpose– The purpose of this paper is to look back on the last 30 years of technology development for libraries.Design/methodology/approach– The paper presents an interview that took place at the American Library Association Annual Meeting in Anaheim, California.Findings– The paper reveals that many of the developments are slow. There are very few really sudden revolutions in social‐scale technologies. They do not switch on quickly and cannot be sudden because the installed base is too thin.Originality/value– The paper reveals that there should be some renewed conversation about how libraries can help the public. In the early days of the internet libraries played an enormous uncredited role in teaching the adult population about the internet. There are some opportunities like that now, and one place where we are starting to see signs of it is digital preservation, not as libraries doing it for the cultural record, but helping individuals to do it for their own content.
VL  - 30
IS  - 4
SN  - 0737-8831
DO  - 10.1108/07378831211285059
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1108/07378831211285059
AU  - Lynch Clifford
AU  - Greifeneder Elke
AU  - Seadle Michael
ED  - Michael Seadle
PY  - 2012
Y1  - 2012/01/01
TI  - Interactions between libraries and technology over the past 30 years: An interview with Clifford Lynch 23.06.2012
T2  - Library Hi Tech
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 565
EP  - 578
Y2  - 2024/05/05
ER  -