TY - JOUR
AU - Michael Harris
AU - Stanley Hannah
BT - Library & Information Science Research
IS - 2
LA - English
N1 - 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.
PY - 1992
SP - 123
EP - 130
T2 - Library & Information Science Research
TI - Why Do We Study the History of Libraries? A Meditation on the Perils of Ahistoricism in the Information Era
VL - 14
ER -