Sound Recordings And The Library

Sound Recordings And The Library Guido Biagi, librarian of the Royal Library at Florence, predicted in a talk at the 1904 conference of the American Library Association that “there will be a few readers but an infinite number of hearers, who will listen from their own homes to the spoken paper, to the spoken book. University students will listen to their lectures while they lie in bed, and, as now with us, will not know their professors even by sight. But even if the graphophone does not…