Paperless society

A Paperless society is a society in which paper communication (written documents, mail, letters, etc.) is replaced by electronic communication and storage. The concept originated by Frederick Wilfrid Lancaster in 1978.[1] Furthermore, libraries would no longer be needed to handle printed documents. "Librarians will, in time, become information specialists in a deinstitutionalized setting" (Lancaster & Smith, 1980). Lancaster also stated that both computers and libraries will not always give us the information that other people and living life will.[2]

Literature
  • Brodman, E. (1979). Review of Toward Paperless Information Systems. Bulletin of the Medical Library Association, 67(4), 437–439.
  • Buckland, M. K. (1980). Review of Toward Paperless Information Systems. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 5(6), 349.
  • Grosch, A. (1979). Review of Toward Paperless Information Systems. College & Research Libraries, 40(1), 88–89.
  • Kohl, D. F. (2004). From the editor . . . The paperless society . . . Not quite yet. Journal of Academic Librarianship, 30(3), 177–178.
  • Lancaster, F. W. (1978a). Toward paperless information systems. New York: Academic Press.
  • Lancaster, F. W. (1980b). The future of the librarian lies outside of the library. Catholic Library World, 51, 388–391.
  • Lancaster, F. W. (1982a). Libraries and librarians in an age of electronics. Arlington, VA: Information Resources Press.
  • Lancaster, F. W. (1982b). The evolving paperless society and its implications for libraries. International Forum on Information and Documentation, 7(4), 3–10.
  • Lancaster, F. W. (1983). Future librarianship: Preparing for an unconventional career. Wilson Library Bulletin, 57, 747–753.
  • Lancaster, F. W. (1985). The paperless society revisited. American Libraries, 16, 553–555.
  • Lancaster, F. W. (1993). Libraries and the future: Essays on the library in the twenty-first century. New York: Haworth Press.
  • Lancaster, F. W. (1999). Second thoughts on the paperless society. Library Journal, 124(15), 48– 50.
  • Lancaster, F. W., & Smith, L. C. (1980c). On-Line systems in the communication process: Projections. Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 31(3), 193–200.
  • Miall, D. S. (2001). The library versus the Internet: Literary studies under siege? Proceedings of the Modern Language Association, 116(5), 1405–1414.
  • Salton, G. (1979). Review of Toward Paperless Information Systems. Journal of Documentation, 35(3), 250–252.
  • Sellen, A. J., & Harper, R. H. R. (2003). The myth of the paperless office. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
  • Stevens, N. D. (2006). The fully electronic academic library. College & Research Libraries, 67(1),5–14.
  • Young, Arthur P. (2008).Aftermath of a Prediction: F. W. Lancaster and the Paperless Society LIBRARY TRENDS, 56(4),(“The Evaluation and Transformation of Information Systems: Essays Honoring the Legacy of F. W. Lancaster,” edited by Lorraine J. Haricombe and Keith Russell), pp. 843–858. http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/9496/56.4.young.pdf?sequence=2[2]
gollark: > And I would, because Lua is the worst language ever.Heresy. At least it's not COBOL, or Pascal, or Visual BASIC, or C.
gollark: My very old and bad storage system used to have an autocrafting system, but it was very primitive and could only handle simple cases where there's only one way to make each thing.
gollark: Well, this is interesting, at least the bits I vaguely understand.
gollark: Yep!
gollark: An interesting fact is that functions can have multiple return values, which is a different thing to tables and iterators because of course.

See also

References
  1. "Towards paperless information systems". CERN Document Server. Academic Press. 1978. Retrieved 2016-02-10.
  2. Young, Arthur P. (2008).Aftermath of a Prediction: F. W. Lancaster and the Paperless Society LIBRARY TRENDS, 56(4),(“The Evaluation and Transformation of Information Systems: Essays Honoring the Legacy of F. W. Lancaster,” edited by Lorraine J. Haricombe and Keith Russell), pp. 843–858. http://www.ideals.illinois.edu/bitstream/handle/2142/9496/56.4.young.pdf?sequence=2
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