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Re: Library Roles Changing, Open Access Not Compelling

One could argue that the survey got it right or wrong, but I hope 
no one puts too much time into surveys.  People don't know what 
they think.  They can't imagine innovations.  A survey of 
physicists 20 years ago would not have given us arXiv.  That took 
Paul Ginsparg.  A survey of anyone 10 years ago would not have 
offered us the iPod, iPhone, and iPad (though someone could have 
predicted the dumb names).

Those products, which are transformative in modern society, 
required Steve Jobs.  The future of libraries and the status 
among faculty is something that must be invented.  Find the 
inventor.

Joe Esposito

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 3:06 PM, Philip Davis <pmd8@cornell.edu> wrote:
> One Report, Two Findings: Library Roles Changing, Open Access Not Compelling
> by Kent Anderson
> Scholarly Kitchen
> April 15, 2010
> http://j.mp/92pRAi