THE ABANDONED SWITCHBOARD: LIBRARY/INFORMATION JOURNALS

Abstract

More than archivists, museum curators or other information‐related professions, librarians have always had before them in print the artefacts of communication systems designed by other men. They may always have tended to regard these as so many items to be stored, sorted and accounted for: but external communication models have arguably not been without influence on the library profession. With the development of professionalism among librarians, at the point when individuals no longer worked in ignorance and disregard of what others elsewhere were doing, the creation of purpose‐made systems became a necessity.

Citation

GRESHAM, J. (1979), "THE ABANDONED SWITCHBOARD: LIBRARY/INFORMATION JOURNALS", Library Review, Vol. 28 No. 3, pp. 143-147. https://doi.org/10.1108/eb012688