Over at the Wall Street Journal Jeff Zaslow Says today’s computer-obsessed kids don’t visit the library as often as we had hoped. They usually turn to Google if they want to research something.
It saddens him that younger generations seem more eager to buy books than borrow them, or that they consider libraries just another tool for acquiring information.
“The library is more removed from their lives,” says Sabra Steinsiek, a retired librarian in Albuquerque, N.M. “It’s a last-ditch place to go if they need to find something out.”
so?
I’m not really having a problem with that.
Re:so?
Oddly enough, I’m okay with that as well. To tell you the truth, if I didn’t work in a public library, I’d never visit one. Even though I spent an inordinate amount of time in the public library as a child, it really has no special meaning for me today. If I want a book, I’ll buy it. If I want information, I know how to locate it on the internet…in the privacy of my own home.
Time moves on. Things change. For good or bad.