“Computers replace books” Wor-Wic Community College sophomore Christy Lohnas doesn’t have to search through stacks of books anymore to find the resources she needs.
When Lohnas has a paper to complete, the library’s online database provides the answers.
Wor-Wic’s Library, better known as the Media Center, has gone completely electronic, replacing books with desktop computers. The collection of full-text online databases covers a wide range of genres and includes a variety of both print and online sources such as articles from reference books, academic journals, magazines, newspapers, pamphlets and statistical tables.
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“People Who Ordinarily Wouldn’t Be Reading Books Still Aren’t Reading Books.”
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Or a few others…
“People who may have supported the library won’t”
“People who may have donated to the library, won’t”
“More people see no use for libraries”
Great quote of the day
“They’re peer-reviewed,” said Wor-Wic English Professor Elinor Cubbage. “They’re foolproof.”
How comforting that is. No error has ever appeared in a peer-reviewed article, and all licensed databases consist entirely of peer-reviewed articles.
And I am the King of Prussia, bow ye heads all mere mortals.
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Or how about? Why the feck should you go to the library, and why the hell do we need librarians.
Or perhaps? Stupid arse academic functionaries sold a bill of goods by e-library vendor.
So when these kids get out of community college and are presented with a real academic research library -assuming that they go on to a higher degree. I don’t know about anyone else’s libraries but the foundations of the things I have studied nursing/chemistry/law/library science are still print. Sure new things are digitized, but things from even the late 90’s are still not fully digitized.
These poor students are robbed of the satisfaction of finding material in the stacks given just a citation. That in and of itself is an important skill. The tactile sensation of 37 year old bound journals can never be replaced with a keyboard.
No library at Wor-Wic
What they don’t mention is that Wor-Wic never had much of an independent library to speak of in the first place. Salisbury University’s library was always their library, aside from a very small media center. Wor-Wic students are counted in the FTE for SU’s databases, etc. Wor-Wic students are in the same boat as any other set of students who don’t live and take classes on the main campus