Libraries of the future: virtual library offers the latest in information technology. (local North Carolina system provides access to computers, imaging, multimedia production)

Computers in Libraries | February 1, 1997| | Copyright

If flexibility, creativity, and the ability to anticipate the changing needs of its area residents are hallmarks of the library of the future, then the Public Library of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County (PLCMC), North Carolina, will forever remain on the cutting edge of library services. First, it won the 1995 Gale Research, Inc./Library Journal "Library of the Year" award, which included a $10,000 grant from Gale Research, Inc. Then PLCMC captured the 1996 American Library Association/Information Today, Inc. "Library of the Future" award for its Virtual Library--a place ...

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