Facing the limitations of electronic document handling

Abstract

The new electronics‐based technologies have proved so effective at automating information handling, in libraries as well as elsewhere, that it often seems difficult to believe that they have any fundamental limitations. Certainly, while the requirement remains that of handling information in traditional ‘computer’ forms, notably those of data and text, the potential of the electronics technologies is indeed almost limitless. But what about more complex forms of information, such as the real‐life documentation that every organisation, and in particular every library, has to handle in very large quantities? Increasingly, it is becoming clear that when it comes to automating the handling of these more complex forms of information, the electronics technologies themselves cannot provide anything like a complete answer.

Citation

Moralee, D. (1985), "Facing the limitations of electronic document handling", The Electronic Library, Vol. 3 No. 3, pp. 210-217. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb044661