If you like movies and libraries, I’ve got a recommendation for you. Desk Set (1957) is a comedy, starring Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, set in the reference library at a television network. Hepburn is the head librarian and Tracy is a man hired by the company to install the “electronic brain” aka very large computer in the reference department. The librarians fear that with the installation of this new bit of technology, they will all soon be out of a job. Faced with this possibility, Hepburn sets out to prove that no computer can ever match the abilities of the human mind. You can find this film and many others here in Snell Library.
Stephanie, this sounds great! One of my best friends adores Katherine Hepburn, so I’ll have to watch it with her.
It also reminds me of the following, “I’ll out-sell the computer” gambit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Launch_Party
I have seen this movie really great..check out the electronic brain..computer..really makes me chuckle..she was a great Reference librarian.
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