1. The Bodleian Library - from Gutenberg to Google Presentation to the e-Book Symposium University of Hong Kong Reg Carr Bodley’s Librarian, University of Oxford Bodley’s Librarian, University of Oxford 21 September 2006

15. “The book is dead!” “Move over Gutenberg!” Johann Gutenberg RIP

16. “The book is dead!” The printed book RIP Or is it? “The book is dead!” The printed book RIP Or is it?

17. The principle of ‘co-existence’ of communications media types (The notion of ‘overlap’)

20. ‘Co-existence’ still at work ‘Fitness for purpose’… ‘Fitness for purpose’… E-mails, text messages and letters E-mails, text messages and letters Cell phones, laptops and pens and pencils Cell phones, laptops and pens and pencils Keyboard skills and handwriting Keyboard skills and handwriting Overlapping communications media Overlapping communications media

35. “The hybrid library” “The dominant user view of a library is of a physical space. But libraries are services which provide organised access to the intellectual record, wherever it resides, whether in physical places or in scattered digital information spaces. The ‘hybrid’ library of the future will be a managed combination of physical and virtual collections and information resources”

45. The application of computers in libraries From ‘mechanisation’ to ‘automation’ to ‘information, knowledge and digital asset management’

46. The ‘discontinuities’ of communications in the age of the Internet: big changes under way Broader than just libraries Broader than just libraries The nature of publishing The nature of publishing The cycle of authoring, publication The cycle of authoring, publication and reading and reading Economic issues Economic issues Legal issues Legal issues Social issues Social issues

47. “Whither (wither?) Gutenberg?” and “Whither (wither?) libraries?”

48. The digital information revolution: a phenomenal expansion The Internet The Internet The World Wide Web The World Wide Web Feynman’s digital nanocube? Feynman’s digital nanocube?