Author : Mark Y. Herring
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 22,21 MB
Release : 2015-01-09
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0786453931
Book Description
This work skeptically explores the notion that the internet will soon obviate any need for traditional print-based academic libraries. It makes a case for the library's staying power in the face of technological advancements (television, microfilm, and CD-ROM's were all once predicted as the contemporary library's heir-apparent), and devotes individual chapters to the pitfalls and prevarications of popular search engines, e-books, and the mass digitization of traditional print material.