id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt crl-15450 Veaner, Allen B. Arms, William Y. Digital Libraries. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Pr., 2000. 287p. $45, alk. paper (ISBN 0262011808). LC 99‐14773. 2001-05-01 3 .pdf application/pdf 1917 88 51 Arms correctly points out that many people who grew up with the Internet believe they have “discovered” online information systems and are com­ pletely unaware that the concepts form­ ing the basis of digital libraries were long ago researched and developed by the li­ brary community. Computer scientists, writes Arms, are the hares of digital libraries, whereas large libraries— and by extension, one can infer, their li­ brarians—are the tortoises. cache/crl-15450.pdf txt/crl-15450.txt