Sunday, June 8, 2008

Collision of worlds

This will be more meaningful to those also working on the LIS 2000 essay, on scholarly communication and digital libraries.

When I got to work the other day I found out we were going for a tour of our book distributor's warehouse. It was pretty interesting, but also jarring to be pulled out of thoughts of digital documents, cyberinfrastructure, and online publishing and find myself in a warehouse full of actual books, discussing how they are organized for easy access and shipping.

Well, rest assured, at least in this corner of the world the infrastructure for getting physical books on medical library shelves is very well developed. In case you were worried.

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