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Tomorrow's library today

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  1. THE MILTON PUBLIC LIBRARY, MILTON MA http://www.tiac.net/users/mpl/ This site contains a plethora of links to research sites and keeps an annoted list of over 100 U.S. public library Web sites, providing a critique of each site's best features. Check out the linked list of Yahoocompiled Library/research sites.Google ScholarGoogle Scholar
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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 40, Issue 1
            Jan. 1997
            79 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/242857
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