Knowledge Society And Future Library Technology

As is well-known, public libraries have developed historically in tandem with the industrial society, and their formation is mostly based on enlightenment ideals of freedom of expression and of universal access to information and works of imagination. Article 19 in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights from 1948 is an eloquent and unique expression of these ideals stating that “everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without i