THE DGER LIBRARY THEN AND NOW– THE TRANSFORMATION OF A SMALL GEOSCIENCE LIBRARY FROM PAPER TO CYBERSPACE

The last few decades have seen profound changes in what libraries do and how they do it. We’ve gone from all-paper to all Internet, 24-7.

This paper examines that transition through the example of the library of the Washington state geological survey. Some unusual aspects of geoscience library collections will be discussed.

That library took that same ride from all-paper to the Internet, 24-7 that other geology libraries did. Because the DGER library was so primitive compared to other libraries, it had a longer way to go, but it got there.