Using computer technology: frustrations abound

Abstract

The automation of libraries is a fairly recent entry to the growing number of areas of applications for computers. Is this an indication that librarians have been resisting advancing technology or could it be that the process of controlling large stores of information is so complex and the hardware, software, and brainware still too limited to cope with this complexity? Might it also be that computer specialists, underestimating the challenges, have evinced little interest in the library problem?