Library? Students prefer using Web to do research

ModBee.com has This One that says for many of today\’s students, the Dewey Decimal System is ancient history.


They are talking about The Study by Pew Internet & American Life Project. Seventy-three percent of the 12- to 17-year-olds who were interviewed said they used the Internet. And of the 754 Internet users surveyed, 94 percent said they used it for academic research.
I haven\’t gone through the study myself, but the results don\’t look good as reported.

\”You can find stuff about basically anything on the Internet,\” said Brittany Pittman, a high school sophomore, who used the Internet for a paper on Princess Diana last year. \”It\’s so much easier than finding something in the library.\”