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Information Technology of the Future

Join us in this hour of Science Friday for a live
broadcast from the library of the future. The books
are there, more than a million of them, but so are
500 network connections and an electronic information
center where users can bring science information from
all over the world to their computer screens.

Guests:
Heike Kordish
Deputy Director of Research Libraries
New York Public Library
New York, NY

Ann Thornton
Electronic Training Coordinator
Science, Industry and Business Library
New York, NY

Cheryl Sirna
Reference Librarian
Science, Industry and Business Library
New York, NY

Susan Jacobs
Science Librarian
Science, Industry and Business Library
New York, NY

Plus... a call-out on a 2.33-million-year-old Homo fossil with:

William Kimbel
Science Director
Institute of Human Origins
Berkeley, CA

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