A Tangled Info Web

I have another idea: why not print on three-by-five index cards the name, subject and author of all the books and journals in the library, put them in similarly sized drawers and place them where people coming to the library can have access to them? Someplace where the poor and the elderly, the hurried and the low-tech, my mother and the Luddites can make use of them? We could call it a card catalog.

In the meantime, this thing around the comer from me is not a library at all-it is a pit stop on the Info Highway, a bit of gossamer on the Web.

EISENSTADTER is the science editor of In Jersey, the digital-information network of Asbury Park Press.

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