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“Quality First”
Electronics may make books obsolete
Humanities adjusting to computers
By CHRISTI DAUGHERTY
Reporter
Sometime in the near future en
tire libraries will be stored on disks
instead of in books, and students
will learn almost entirely from com
puters, Dr. Joseph Raben said
Wednesday.
Raben, a former professor eme
ritus at Queens University in New
York and a founding editor of such
publications as “Computers and the
Social Sciences” and “Computers
and Translation”, spoke about the
use of computers in the fields of
humanities.
The presentation was sponsored
by Sterling C. Evans Library, the
College of Liberal Arts and the
computer science department.
Raben, who had first researched
the possibility of using computers
for humanities work in the 1960s,
said that at the time computers
were enormous and difficult to use.
In fact, use was restricted almost
entirely to mathematicians and
computer scientists, he said.
“There were all kinds of compli
cations involved in using computers
then that seemed calculated to con
firm the strong belief that human
ists had nothing to do with compu
ters,” Raben said.
Even the idea of putting words
into computers seemed far-fetched
at that time, he said, but since then,
the idea of computers and humani
ties working together has become
much less outlandish. The micro
computer has made it all more
probable.
“I am personally convinced that
the microcomputer revolution may
be the most important event in the
“I am personally convinced that the microcomputer
revolution may be the most important event in the his
tory of the human species. ”
— Author Dr. Joseph Raben
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average person could read;]
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history of the human species,” he
said.
The changes that have occurred
since the invention of the micro
computer are just an indication of
changes that will radically alter the
way people live, Raben said.
Books, for instance, have become
outdated, he said. They are too del
icate and too scarce a commodity
for the uses for which they are
needed.
and micro-chips, is not touched by
human hands and is not in that way
destroyable,” he said.
A library can only have a certain
number of books on hand, yet there
are unlimited numbers of people
who need them.
Instead of getting only the infor
mation that other humans consider
important through sources such as
encyclopedias, people can get all
the information in existence on a
certain subject, Raben said. Then
they can decide what is important
to them. Thus, human error is less
possible.
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continue to get larger i
Raben said. Thelastr
tion 1 heard was 2.51
of information on one opt
However, he said.t
only will influence how*
also how we learn.
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Information changes very
quickly, Raben added, and books
become obsolete in short amounts
of time because their very nature
makes it difficult to alter them to
keep up with the times.
“A librarian told me that books
which are needed for a certain class
may be checked out a hundred
times in a semester,” he said. “By
the end of that semester the book
has literally been worn to pieces.”
He emphasized that he doesn’t
suggest people sit in front of a com
puter each time they want to read a
book, or that they take the com
puter on vacation with them to read
while lying on the beach.
Instead, he said, this advance
ment would help researchers or
people who have a particular inter
est in literature or history.
Raben said that com
give students the indivi
tion that a classroom sin
allow. Already studenisa
ing a great deal fromthtitj
ers.
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can teach themselves fas
at a terminal thantheya
class,” lie said.
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The solution to these problems is
to have all the books people could
possibly need on a computer, Ra-
oen said.
“The actual computer, the wires
Raben said he used computers in
this way when researching the in
fluences of writers upon other writ
ers.
“I wanted to know how often and
where Milton’s name was men
tioned within 10 or 20 words of
Shelley’s name,” he said.
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computer will teach I
level. If he learns moreq
computer will teach
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City hall moved into train depot
NC
Associated Press
PANHANDLE — When residents
in this historic Texas Panhandle rail
road town learned the Santa Fe rail
road planned to do away with its old
depot here, they asked to be allowed
to give the building a new lease on
life.
Several possiblities were consid
ered for the maroon brick building
that had played a major part in the
town’s growth.
“The museum was interested in
it,” City Manager Larry Gilley says.
“We were also thinking about mov
ing city hall. It was small, and we
needed more room. The current city
hall at that time was about half the
size of the train depot.”
After mulling over the possibility
of making the old depot into city
hall, Panhandle city officials ap
proached the company.
“Santa Fe leased the building to us
on an annual non-billable lease,” Gil
ley said. “It’s still their property, but
company officials said they had no
future need for it.”
The depot had a long history in
this town. Trains stopped here in the
early part of the century to deliver
supplies for the nearby boom town
of Borger, where the goods were
transferred by vehicles or horse-
drawn wagons. Eventually Santa Fe
put a station in Borger, and the need
for the one in Panhandle decreased.
But the decision was finally made
to close the depot, and Santa Fe filed
tn the Texas Railroad
a request witr
Commission to do away with it.
When city officials in Panhandle
received a copy of the official notifi
cation, they began to consider what
could be done to save the building.
So the work began to change an
old-time train depot into a city hall
that could fit the needs of a modern,
bustling town but still keep the fla
vor of the original building. It be
came a $26,000 renovation project, a
figure which does not include air
conditioning.
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game in Lubbock can
their support for the
team by attending yell
7 p.m. tonight attneGi
Midnight yell practice»:j
held in Buddy Holly Parlui
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side of the univenity. To
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