November 2001: Scryers, Crystal Balls, and the Future

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September 2001: The Future of Library Services

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March 2001: A Gossamer of Light

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January 2001: Experts Debate Cyberage Issues; Civil War Letters

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November 2001: P.A.S.C.A.L: The Cooperative Spirit

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August 2001: Moving Ahead

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February 2001: The Staff of (Dacus) Life

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Ah, Libraries: How I Love the Smell of... Electronic Access?!

In the olden days, we Baby-Boomers would walk into our university or college libraries and pause just long enough to take in that wonderful smells of high grade cowhide leather and aging papyrus before rushing off to study. There was something about opening any leather bound edition of anything and being transported by the smell to some distant land, not unlike Charles Swann in Marcel Proust’s famous French novel, A La Recherché du Temps Perdu, Remembrance of Things Past.