But now, as David James, an owner of Nuvenco, the company that makes the PackTite, noted, "libraries across the country, we hear from them on a weekly basis".
Speaking to VICE, Lucy said the findings mirrored her own experience and noted libraries embraced many of the cultural divides other industries battled.
Note that libraries such as the R-based XCMS (Smith et al., 2006) or the Matlab-based Bioinformatics Toolbox (Mathworks, Natick, MA, USA) lie between these extremes.
Most of us, noting that libraries are full of works in translation, neglect such questions.
Universities have established e-learning platforms, online lecture notes and libraries available in virtual learning environments.
Alan Inouye of the American Library Association notes that libraries jealously guard data about users' borrowing habits.
Librarians' groups also noted that libraries continue to provide public access to the historical record of periodicals and newspapers, and, unlike Lexis-Nexis, libraries do not charge a fee.
"But we're clearly not out to pirate books," she added, noting that libraries traditionally buy one or more copies of print books and circulate them, which has not been a problem for publishers.
And even with material old enough to be in the public domain, users of proprietary archives can still be denied the right to copy or distribute it.As the Internet Archive notes, without libraries, people would find it hard to exercise their "right to remember".
The Stanley Kubrick exhibition gives an in depth look at the iconic filmmakers' career, with everything from a long cabinet of cameras and lenses used during filming, marked up scripts, sketches of set designs and notes, to libraries of art books as source material.
