id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-14533 Rumsey, Eric The Power of the New Microcomputers: Challenge and Opportunity 1990-03-01 5 .pdf application/pdf 2977 157 62 Allen Veaner has noted the accelerating growth in microcomputer power and usability: Mysteriousness and inconvenience, once the hallmarks of the computer, have been almost completely eliminated ... computers and soft- ware are gradually giving users greater and greater power to cut through bureaucracy, for- mality, and red tape, to extract what the.)T want from data files and information systems. Jim Wavada, in accord with Veaner, warns us that CD-ROM should be seen as the harbinger of the personal research li- brary, which will make it possible for end users to manage their information in- dependently of the traditional library. cache/crl-14533.pdf txt/crl-14533.txt