University Assigns Freshmen “Personal Librarians”

Many people have a love/hate relationship with Google, but few have it to such a degree as librarians. For every innovation that makes the task of finding information easier, librarians both have occasion to be thankful for the timesavers–but also fearful that new technology could render their services obsolete. Add to this a habit for Google to occasionally slight libraries (as in this Google Instant announcement video which excitedly boasts that the Internet’s contents had swelled to a million times the holdings of all U.S. libraries). “It’s a complicated relationship,” writes one librarian-blogger in a post called “The Horror of Google Scholar.”

Full article at FastCompany.com

September 16, 2010 by Uncategorized 0

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