GEN: Real libraries still needed (NYT article)

[Ken Umbach <kumbach@UNLIMITED.NET>]

Hi, all ... check out Pamela Mendels's latest article at the online New York
Times (if you have access to it -- and no, I can't send copies of the
article; sorry).

It is at:
http://www.nytimes.com/library/tech/98/04/cyber/education/01education.html

The title is "Nothing but Net? Not For Duke's Library Fans."  The focus is
at the college level, but the principle applies as well at K-12.  Quoting in
part:

"'Keeping the library is essential,' Liken [a student at Duke] says. 'I use
the library to study.  You are surrounded by academic publications and it
almost instills in you this drive to further your mind.'"

Access to the NYT online edition is free in the U.S., with registration.

Worth a look.

Ken
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