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Eva O'Meara, music librarian at Yale for many years, is said to have remarked in the 1930s that the addition of 78-rpm recordings to her library seemed to change it into something between a post office and a hardware store. While enough decades have passed since then to make audio recordings common in music collections, the thought of adding computers and computer software often inspires similar (and perhaps even less charitable) analogies from her professional counterparts in the 1980s.