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Article: Oh no, I lost all of my work! We feel that these changes for the better, with the built-in transparency of background file saves, will only improve the students' library computing experience.
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- Computers in Libraries
- Article date:
- September 1, 2009
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Librarianship became a second career for me when I retired from being a computer specialist for a large municipal government agency. In my prior life as a computer specialist, I was more concerned with setting up operating systems and loading application software than I was with helping individuals who asked, "How do I do that in Word?"
Now, years later, as the electronic services librarian at the Brooklyn campus library of Long Island University (LIU), I find myself worrying more about the latter.
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Having been in the computer industry for more years than I care to think about, I'm reminded of one of the earliest tenets of word ...