[EAS] Internet is no Library

[pjk]

Subject:   Internet is no Library

(from CIT INFOBITS May 2004 No. 71 ISSN 1521-9275)
 <http://www.unc.edu/cit/infobits/>

THE MORE THINGS CHANGE, THE MORE THEY . . .

Published three years ago, Mark Y. Herring's article, "10 Reasons
Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library" (AMERICAN
LIBRARIES, April 2001, pp. 76-78), is uncomfortably relevant today.
Many of the Internet problems Herring addressed still trouble us:
poor quality control, the absence older materials, incompleteness of
so-called full-text sites, and search engine insufficiencies. The
article is available online at
http://www.ala.org/ala/alonline/selectedarticles/10reasonswhy.htm

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Dear Colleagues -

This is still worth thinking about, not so much because anyone at a
university is likely to propose eliminating libraries (as some
corporations _have_ done), but because the habits of searching often
start and end with google. It is especially important that our
students, who are furthest toward the google-only, MacDonaldized
form of information gathering, be reminded of the effective and
_ordered_ concentration of knowledge a libary represents. See also
<http://jove.eng.yale.edu/pipermail/eas-info/2001/000283.html>

   --PJK