Fool's Gold
Author: Mark Y. Herring
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2015-01-09
Total Pages: 201
ISBN-13: 0786453931
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.