Today\’s Chronicle has a very good Look At the dicey relationship between academic libraries and all the new for-profit cybraries.
Professors are afraid they make it too easy for students to plagiarize and the sparten collections and impending dot-doom that hovers over them leaves academic librarians uneasy about using them.
This is the best look at this topic I\’ve read to date, check it out if this area is of interest.
\”Library users, he says, like being able to look online to see what an e-book offers. But many apparently looked only long enough to decide if it was worth walking to the library to do what students and professors have traditionally done — check out a good, old-fashioned book\”
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