@article{bibcite_13694,
  author = {Michael Harris and Stanley Hannah},
  title = {Why Do We Study the History of Libraries? A Meditation on the Perils of Ahistoricism in the Information Era},
  year = {1992},
  journal = {Library \& Information Science Research},
  volume = {14},
  pages = {123-130},
  note = {Responds to recent predictions of the end of libraries by Daniel Bell, F. W. Lancaster, and others.  Discusses the importance of history to help avoid overly pessimistic predictions of doom as well as reckless optimism about the future.},
  language = {English},
}