Fool's Gold
Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library| By: | Mark Y. Herring |
| Publisher: | McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers |
| Print ISBN: | 9780786430826 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780786453931 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2007 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.