. Bell telephone magazine . aries, for example—and receive back theinformation he needs. In the library of the future, automaticindexing and classifying, information re-trieval, mechanical translation, opticalscanning or pattern recognition, highspeed photography, and printing will havea profound impact. Documents or pages of books can be 63 Changing Attitudes reduced by iiiicrorepioduction techniquesto pinhead size, then stored on film inwhat is. in effect, an information ware-hous:e. Each item is coded, and a memoryunit in a coordinated computer remem-bers where it is located. The entire con
. Bell telephone magazine . aries, for example—and receive back theinformation he needs. In the library of the future, automaticindexing and classifying, information re-trieval, mechanical translation, opticalscanning or pattern recognition, highspeed photography, and printing will havea profound impact. Documents or pages of books can be 63 Changing Attitudes reduced by iiiicrorepioduction techniquesto pinhead size, then stored on film inwhat is. in effect, an information ware-hous:e. Each item is coded, and a memoryunit in a coordinated computer remem-bers where it is located. The entire contents of 20,000 standardvolumes can be stored in a space the sizeof a small desk. And this is one answerto the problem of storing the yearly cropof 60 million pages of technical papers sothat they can be conveniently located,retrieved and disseminated. In such a library the user would relyon machines, not only to tell him whereto locate the book or journal article hewants, but also literally to deliver to himits ■| Another approach would call forcondensing the information itself,and not merely its physical form. Theideal system using this principle wouldincorporate a device which automaticallyreads printed matter and translates itinto machine language. Next the materialis abstracted, classified, and indexed auto-matically and stored in a computer. Theuser can call up relevant abstracts auto-matically, as required. There is broad general agreementamong educators that in the future, moreand more students will get at least someof their facts—and therefore some of theirlearning — from inanimate dispensers —films, tapes, television, computers, infor-mation banks and teaching machines—in addition to the irreplaceable contactwith living teachers. Recognizing this,campus facilities, particularly the lecturehall, the residence hall and individualstudy spaces will likely be designed oradapted to these new, technological car-riers of knowledge—all of which can bem
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