Technology
Technology has become sophisticated. The library was the first public library in New Zealand to use a computerised lending system (1975) and this system has been updated for the new building. A telex machine has been added and an on-line computer data base search is operating.
The library also uses a variety of microform equipment and materials, including a complete microfilm of the Christchurch Press from 1861 and the Times of London from 1975. A microfilm edition of the Star is in preparation, and other newspapers will be transferred to film in the coming years. Microfiche has become a feature of the Commerce, Science and Technology Division.
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Famous quotes containing the word technology:
“Our technology forces us to live mythically, but we continue to think fragmentarily, and on single, separate planes.”
—Marshall McLuhan (1911–1980)
“If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation. Whoever concerns himself with big technology, either to push it forward or to stop it, is gambling in human lives.”
—Freeman Dyson (b. 1923)