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Obituary: Michael Smethurst; Librarian responsible for state-of-the-art services at the new British Library.(Obituaries)
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The Independent (London, England)
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October 26, 2004| Author:
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Byline: Brian Lang
MICHAEL SMETHURST - first as a university librarian and then for 10 years in senior roles at the British Library - was in the front line during a period of massive change for libraries and librarianship.
The rapid advances in information technology during the last quarter of the 20th century have resulted in changes as significant as those brought about in Europe by the spread of printing following the activities of Gutenberg and Caxton. The contrasting feature of the current information revolution, however, is that we are conscious of the revolution ...
