Jamie Kiechlin's Profile

For most IT leaders, bound by long-standing infrastructure choices and loads of legacy

systems, it's little more than a parlor game. For Geir Ramleth, however, the question

provided the foundation to a new model for delivering corporate IT services.

Without a doubt, technology
has also invaded the library, beginning with automation systems designed
to computerize the circulation system and moving on to systems that enable
patrons to better access information in both the circulation system and
in all forms of databases. Search engines have been developed and perfected
to provide enhanced research capabilities and to tap the power of the Internet
as a resource provider. Now, digital libraries are coming into being as
libraries are joining together to digitize collections and broaden access
even more. There are even predictions that the e-book may soon be as popular
as other hand-held computing devices.