"Library Networks: Should They Deal With Containers or Contents of Knowledge?"

Searching around, it doesn't seem like the outside world (e.g. Google Scholar, bibliographers) are aware that this piece Licklider wrote even exists, despite it being digitized and sitting here in the open.

This piece presages the Internet Archive and, given the juxtaposition of its lofty goals with the piece's own obscurity, there's a perverse irony here.

Licklider writes in section 2:

It is high time that librarians reach out into computer networks to create order and functionality out of what is now chaos. (The author would- estimate that 90 per cent of the computerized information in EDUCOM universities "trickles down" to back-up or dead storage tapes within two years and that less than one per cent ever "perks up" again.)

"Perking up" is more than what I'm talking about here—again, I can't find evidence that this piece is even catalogued anywhere.

Lots of stuff to dig through here. (35 items that the Wayback Machine is describing with class iconochive-First.)