Libraries with electronic resources…
From The Chronicle: Wired Campus Blog:
The vice president for information services at Rhodes College, in Tennessee, wrote an article bemoaning the decision by some institutions to de-emphasize printed books in favor of electronic texts. “As huge university libraries push aside their books, they are sending a terrible message to their students,” Robert Johnson wrote. (The Christian Science Monitor)
What, exactly, is the “terrible message”? That libraries are dynamic places?
My best guess is that he is thinking that students are using the internet (read: Goggle) for academic research and NOT recieving the exhaustive, credible information that they would get in a library. Therefore, students should be directed to books and libraries instead of libraries confusing the issue by providing credible and (hopefully) exhaustive information digitally. Mmmm, seems like a massive lapse in reasoning there… unless I've got it wrong…
