Word: linked
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Outlining a vision for the "virtual library" of the future, the interim president and provost of Emory University yesterday told participants at a Harvard conference that new technology will someday link libraries all over the world...
...history of The Link reflects the slow,rational, studied pace typical of Universityprojects. Plenty of committees formed...
...type of project you can rush,"says Rick Kleber, the superintendent ofconstruction. Indeed, The Link's complicatedplacement and curious specifications madeconstruction a whopper of a challenge. "It's beena very interesting project--very intensemechanically," he says. And stressful. "Anytimeyou work between two fixed points, there's no roomto shift things...
According to Connors, The Link was developedafter a "long, long, long planning stage when theprofessors and designers got together." Becausethey conceived it from scratch, they were able toincorporate idiosyncratic research needs into thebuilding's basic structure. The designers spent agreat deal of time walking through the existinglabs, analyzing programs and interviewing thefuture occupants...
...Rice ultimately takes on too much in Lasher--the novel is too broad in scope. Rice seeks to link up Celtic pagan myths to Christian ones, secular ideas to religious ones. Several of the disparate strands of the narrative seem intentionally left unresolved to pave the way for a sequel. Throughout the novel one is willing to forgive minor stylistic and narrative gaps, yet the eventual collapse of the historical panorama and Lasher's final confession seem little more than ridiculous. For devotes of the genre Rice offers all the elements which make the erotic/horror/fantasy tale popular--she just fails...