[LM_NET] Disappearance of whole books as study materials?

[Josephine Dervan <dervan@OPTONLINE.NET>]

Very interesting article in the Chronicle of Higher Education about today's wired 
college students and reading assignments.


Will the Book Survive Generation Text?
by Carlin Romano

 ...the growing feeling among humanities professors—intuitive and anecdotal, shared 
over lunch like an embarrassing tale about a colleague—that for too many of today's 
undergraduates, reading a whole book, from A to Z, feels like a marathon unfairly 
imposed on a jogger.
 
...the death of the book as object of study, the disappearance of "whole" books as 
assigned reading. 

http://chronicle.com/article/Will-the-Book-Survive/124115/%27

Josephine Dervan, MLS -Adjunct Instructor 
School of Communication and Information 
Rutgers University 
dervan at optonline.net 


He who has a library and a garden, wants for nothing- Cicero 

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