Mark Y. Herring

Fool's Gold

Why the Internet Is No Substitute for a Library

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 387g
• ISBN-13: 9780786430826
• ISBN-10: 0786430826
• Artikelnr.: 22556419

Autorenporträt

Mark Y. Herring is the dean of library services at Winthrop University, Rock Hill, South Carolina. His work has appeared in American Libraries and Library Journal and many other publications.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Preface     
Introduction     
1. Caught in the Web     
2. Forget the Needle. Can You Just Tell Me Which Haystack?     
3. Weare18.com     
4. Footnotes? Who Needs Them!     
5. Google Über Alles     
6. E-books to the Rescue!     
7. The Paperless Revolution Is Complete!     
8. A Mile Wide and a Mind-Numbing Inch Deep     
9. The Endgame: Quo Vadis?     
Chapter Notes     
Index