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Electric libraries: Technology changes community resources

January 9, 2005 /

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When Darlene Staffeldt embarked on her library career 35 years ago, the only search engine available was her knowledge of the Dewey Decimal System, and her determination to find what she was looking for.

Back then, Staffeldt said, tracking down an obscure article often took hours. If the library didn’t have the material on hand, the patron was out of luck.

Jump forward to 2005, where information is retrieved in seconds, not hours, and where card catalogs have given way to data mining and digital files.

"When I started as a library page, they had me tracking down articles for the patrons," Staffeldt said. "Now that same patron can sit down at the computer and have that article in seconds."

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