From an article by Bruce McLaren in the San Angelo (TX) Times:
“The library provides a cornucopia of possibilities so that a patron is not limited to only one source or format to work with or access.
Books, of course, have been around much longer than the Internet, DVDs or magazines and have become the staple of any library’s collection. Over the past 15-20 years, the availability of books online or in formats such as CDs provides yet another option to reading and listening. Of late, newer electronic devices such as the Kindle, the Nook and other computerized read-books-on-a-portable-electronic-apparatus provide yet another popular way to access literature.
Should such items as the Kindle, books on CD or reading a story from an Internet screen-based resource be considered fads, flashes in the pan or new ways for Madison Avenue techies to get you to buy some new electronic gizmo?
No. In all fairness to changing learning, reading and time-available styles for a growing number of technological-age library users, these new devices meet a need, fit a niche and have become a library’s way of encouraging more folks to come in their front doors and see what great things are available.
That brings me to a point I want to make about books in libraries, at home or in bookstores around the world.
From an article by Bruce McLaren in the San Angelo (TX) Times:
“The library provides a cornucopia of possibilities so that a patron is not limited to only one source or format to work with or access.
Books, of course, have been around much longer than the Internet, DVDs or magazines and have become the staple of any library’s collection. Over the past 15-20 years, the availability of books online or in formats such as CDs provides yet another option to reading and listening. Of late, newer electronic devices such as the Kindle, the Nook and other computerized read-books-on-a-portable-electronic-apparatus provide yet another popular way to access literature.
Should such items as the Kindle, books on CD or reading a story from an Internet screen-based resource be considered fads, flashes in the pan or new ways for Madison Avenue techies to get you to buy some new electronic gizmo?
No. In all fairness to changing learning, reading and time-available styles for a growing number of technological-age library users, these new devices meet a need, fit a niche and have become a library’s way of encouraging more folks to come in their front doors and see what great things are available.
That brings me to a point I want to make about books in libraries, at home or in bookstores around the world. Their place in the scheme of things related to learning, enjoyment and addressing individual curiosities about topics and thoughts have now, and always will have, a place in our lives.
What brought about this tactful thought is a rather disturbing theme I keep hearing. It seems as there are pockets of movement for intellectual change that say books are passé and should be, of all things, removed from libraries to make way for the “future” that technology brings.”
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