1970年至1980年,美国图书馆自动化的应用使图书馆的工作方式发生了巨大变化,打字机被淘汰,众多的卡片目录被读者使用的计算机终端或工作站所取代,索引和文摘的检索也由计算机取代了厚厚的书本。当前计算机网络的飞速发展,特别是全球性的联网,很可能使图书馆在今后的10年中又要发生重大变革。 From 1970 to 1980, the use of library automation in the United States led to drastic changes in the way libraries worked, typewriters were eliminated, numerous card catalogs were replaced by computer terminals or workstations used by readers, and indexing and digest retrieval were also performed by computers Replaced thick books. The current rapid development of computer networks, especially the global networking, is likely to make the library undergo major changes in the next 10 years.