Title
Fool’s Gold Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library
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Description
This work skeptically explores the notion that the internet will soon obviate any need for traditional print-based academic libraries. It makes a case for the library’s staying power in the face of technological advancements (television, microfilm, and CD-ROM’s were all once predicted as the contemporary library’s heir-apparent), and devotes individual chapters to the pitfalls and prevarications of popular search engines, e-books, and the mass digitization of traditional print material.
College
Ida Jane Dacus Library
ISBN
978-0-7864-3082-6
Publication Date
2007
Publisher
McFarland and Company
City
Jefferson
Disciplines
Library and Information Science
Comments
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
1. Caught in the Web
2. Forget the Needle. Can You Just Tell Me Which Haystack?
3. Weare18.com
4. Footnotes? Who Needs Them!
5. Google Uber Alles
6. E-books to the Rescue!
7. The Paperless Revolution Is Complete!
8. A Mile Wide and a Mind-Numbing Inch Deep
9. The Endgame: Quo Vadis?
Chapter Notes
Index