摘要：In a recent paper, Jesse Sheral says that any system of bibliographic organization "must be designed to make readily available the extensive and increasingly intricate accumulations of technological and operational literature as well as the literature of scholarship." He feels that "failure on the part of the librarian to recognize the importance of [the] radical change in his role in the modern industrialized and highly specialized society has resulted in a cultural lag on the part of libarianship that could, if it is permitted to continue, result in institutional obsolescence. Fortunately, there is some evidence that a process of adaptation has already begun that will bring the library into closer conformity to the contemporary cultural pattern....." Shera goes on to deplore the "devastating schism" which has arisen between documentalists and librarians, and hopes that it may be eliminated.
