Re: GEN: New trend in librarianship?

[Michele Missner <missnerm@ATHENET.NET>]

I think that it is definitely the trend especially if you are a library
that
only keeps periodicals for a limited time.  If you can find it online, you
don't have to worry about it being stolen or ripped up.  It can be printed
or emailed or just read.  We are keeping paper copies of more popular
magazines.  We have Ebsco online which was purchased by the state of
Wisconsin for all schools, libraries, and homes.  Even if we did not have
this product we would have on line periodicals.  You also retrieve a lot
of space!!  We have never had the room to keep things more that 3 years on
shelves.  Michele

On Sat, 7 Aug 1999, Carol Petrie wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I would like to bring up a topic for possible discussion.  While on vacation
> this summer, I was talking with my mother who had just had a discussion with
> the new librarian in my old high school in upstate New York.  During their
> discussion he mention that he was going to throw out all the magazines!
> When she told me that I almost had a stroke.  His justification to that was
> that "everything can be found on-line".
>
> Is this a new "trend" that is being taught in library school?  I know that
> the internet is a great research tool, but it is not the end all be all of
> research.
>
> Am I just "old-fashioned"?  Is this the way things are heading?  I would
> love to get some other thoughts on this topic.
>
> Carol Petrie, Media Coordinator
> West Brunswick High School
> 550 Whiteville Rd.
> Shallotte, NC 29470
> cpetrie@nccoast.net
>
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