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the needs for and use of scientific information is not as simple as suggested. there are areas of science where old material remains of relevance. geology is the most obvious example. climatic data over an extended period is also rather important given the debate on climate change. Dick Hartley Professor of Information Science Director, The Institute for Humanities and Social Science Research Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester M15 6LL Tel: +44 161 247 6139 Fax:+44 161 247 6351 email: [log in to unmask] Before acting on this email or opening any attachments you should read the Manchester Metropolitan University's email disclaimer available on its website http://www.mmu.ac.uk/emaildisclaimer >>> Karen Weaver <[log in to unmask]> 4/26/2010 11:43 pm >>> Scientific information has always needed to be current information most in research libraries. However.....trends for humanities and social sciences are interestingly different. JSTOR and back archives of humanities, social science titles, remain a significantly high use collection of online back issues of journals in most if not all academic libraries today. cheers, Karen W. Karen Weaver, MLS, Adjunct Faculty, The iSchool at Drexel University, Philadelphia PA email: [log in to unmask] / Electronic Resources Statistician, Duquesne University, Gumberg Library, Pittsburgh PA email: [log in to unmask] On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 11:47 AM, B.G. Sloan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > From the May-June issue of Harvard Magazine: > > http://bit.ly/c4m1cy > > An excerpt: > > "Increasingly, in the scientific disciplines, information ranging from > online journals to databases must be recent to be relevant, so Widener’s > collection of books, its miles of stacks, can appear museum-like. Likewise, > Google’s massive project to digitize all the books in the world will, by > some accounts, cause research libraries to fade to irrelevance as mere > warehouses for printed material. The skills that librarians have > traditionally possessed seem devalued by the power of online search, and > less sexy than a Google query launched from a mobile platform." > > Bernie Sloan > >