摘要:The author of this book is well known as the foremost authority on this topic, so it makes sense to have himstart off this impressive, ten-volume series of books which deal overall with technology and technological influences on librarianship. This particular topic has been of intense interest in the profession for a number ofyears, as libraries have tried to grapple with clunky, proprietary integrated library systems (ILSs) that the usershave abandoned as a discovery tool since the mid-1990s.